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 prophecy.

‘He pays attention to the old-fashioned values: meticulous plotting, authentic characterisation and realistic dialogue’The Times‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time’Ian Rankin‘He is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

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 prophecy.

‘He pays attention to the old-fashioned values: meticulous plotting, authentic characterisation and realistic dialogue’The Times‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time’Ian Rankin‘He is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday