About the Author

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 thirty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.

Reviews

‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’
The Times ‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky – rounded, rich, intoxicating… Here is an author at his formidable best’
Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday ‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’
Sunday Telegraph