<p>‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’<br />Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’<br />Observer</p>
<p>‘This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action’<br />Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday (of Singing the Sadness)</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’ Sunday Times Joe Sixsmith is going west, though only as far the Llanffugiol Choral Festival in Wales. But his plans are interrupted when they happen upon a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Joe risks life and limb to rescue the woman, only to be roped in to the investigation by the police officer in charge. Suddenly surrounded by a bevy of suspicious characters, he soon realizes that this case is much more than just arson. Aided by little more than his acute instinct for truth, Joe moves forward over the space of a single weekend to uncover crimes which have been buried for years.
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‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’ Sunday Times
• Reginald Hill is one of Britain’s leading crime writers • Reginald Hill is the author of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dalziel and Pascoe novels • The Dalziel and Pascoe novels have now been adapted into a highly successful BBC TV series, with a new block of four screenplays transmitted in June/July 99 at prime time • Hill has won numerous awards, among them the CWA’s Gold and Diamond Daggers
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007331185
Publisert
2009-06-01
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
125 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Reginald Hill was brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as ‘the crime novel’s best hope’ and twenty years on he has more than fulfilled that promise.