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.

‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer‘This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday (of Singing the Sadness)

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.

‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer‘This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday (of Singing the Sadness)

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.

‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer‘This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday (of Singing the Sadness)