Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe. Their appearances have won him numerous award including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.

Praise for The Roar of the Butterflies:‘Told with humour and a light touch… ideal summer reading’ Sunday Telegraph‘Delightful light reading… highly entertaining’ Literary ReviewWhat a great deal of pleasure for readers lies in the pages of this little book’ reviewingtheevidence.com‘A superb comic mystery’ West AustralianAcclaim for the Joe Sixsmith series:‘“Killing the Lawyers’’…is entertaining, sly, jokey…cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue – all the virtues we expect from Hill' The Times'Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery' Sunday Telegraph'A thoroughly engaging investigator' TLS'This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action' Mail on Sunday'The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own’ Independent

Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe. Their appearances have won him numerous award including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.

Praise for The Roar of the Butterflies:‘Told with humour and a light touch… ideal summer reading’ Sunday Telegraph‘Delightful light reading… highly entertaining’ Literary ReviewWhat a great deal of pleasure for readers lies in the pages of this little book’ reviewingtheevidence.com‘A superb comic mystery’ West AustralianAcclaim for the Joe Sixsmith series:‘“Killing the Lawyers’’…is entertaining, sly, jokey…cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue – all the virtues we expect from Hill' The Times'Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery' Sunday Telegraph'A thoroughly engaging investigator' TLS'This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action' Mail on Sunday'The Sixsmith series has a buoyancy and delectability of its own’ Independent