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On Beulah Height (A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel) (Paperback)

by Reginald Hill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; New edition edition (15 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 000649000X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006490005
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 119,947 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'On Beulah Height must rank as his best yet... Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time' Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday 'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times

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'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday They moved everyone that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too. But four inhabitants of the valley they couldn't move, for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and old fears arise as someone sprays the deadly message on the wall of Danby: BENNY'S BACK! Music and myth mingle as the Mid-Yorkshire team delve into their pasts and into their own reserves of experience and endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book Reginald Hill has ever written, 20 Nov 2000
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This book got under my skin completely. It was so disturbing that it was almost like a ghost story in the effect it had on me. Once more he glides easily between the past and the present and the use of multiple narrative only adds to the poignancy. The disappearance of these children is so affecting that I felt like an intruder when I was witnessing the parents' anguish and the effect on the local community. The tragedy builds and builds and scars everyone that it touches. This book is lyrical about issues that one would not expect to be treated that way and it brings out the true horror of the situation. The real poetry here was the way the author brings alive the sense of the fragile balance of life and the futility of taking it away.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing, moving, and well worth the time, 28 Dec 2005
One of the more disturbing books in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, in part because of the theme of serial child killing, but also because it shows that there are no easy answers. It's a complex and thought-provoking story, and one that easily supports re-reading. There is the mystery, yes, but there is also the psychological study of a village traumatised both by a series of unsolved child murders and by its forced relocation after its valley was drowned by a new water reservoir. It's also beautifully written by a master of prose. Hill brings his characters to full and vivid life, and they will linger with you for days.

Ideally the series should be read in order, and I think regular readers already familiar with the characters will get more out of this book, but it can be read as a standalone. For those familiar with the series, Hill continues to develop the story of his ongoing characters, deftly weaving it into the main plot of the book. Note that there are references to events in the previous book (The Wood Beyond) which are slight spoilers for that book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Benny's Back, 12 Feb 2000
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A doomed Yorskshire Valley flooded for progress, missing girls and the legend of Benny's Back, what can all this mean to Dalziel 15 years down the track, well it looks like Benny is back and another little girl has gone missing in similar circumstances, Dalziel must retrace his steps 15 years back when he was involved in the search for the missing girls. Pascoe has his own problems with his own little girl which will somehow tie everything together. This book was quite an exhaustive read with so much going on in the present and the past, how can the drowning of a valley so long ago mean so much to everyone involved in the present day and what has the childrens book "Nina and the Nix"got to do with the dissapearances ? This book has so many turns and red herrings that the only people I didn't suspect of murder were Dalziel and Pascoe. a thoroughly enjoyable read I give it five out of five. Another plus to this book is that it gives you an interest in exploring the composer Mahler to see if the music mentioned in the book is available.
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