Under World (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 10)

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Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
Years ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide.

Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A mans body is discovered down a mine shaft and its clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and Pascoes investigation takes them to the heart of a frightened and hostile community. But could the key to the present-day investigation lie in the past when little Tracey vanished into thin air

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Few writers in the genre today have Hills gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace Donna Leon, Sunday Times

The fertility of Hills imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight Val McDermid, Sunday Express

He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world Andrew Taylor, Independent

Reginald Hills novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

Author Bio

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 novels best hope and thirty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.