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.

‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky’Mail on Sunday‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’The Times‘One of the masters of the modern police procedural’Sunday Telegraph

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.

‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky’Mail on Sunday‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’The Times‘One of the masters of the modern police procedural’Sunday Telegraph