<p>'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</p>
<p>'The finest male English contemporary crime writer' Val McDermid</p>
<p>'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'<br />Ian Rankin</p>
<p>'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' The Times</p>
<p>'These novels last, like a grand malt whisky – rounded, rich, intoxicating… Here is an author at his formidable best'<br />Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>'So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder' Sunday Telegraph</p>
<p>'He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' Andrew Taylor, Independent</p>
<p>'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney, Observer</p>