Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe, ‘the best detective duo on the scene bar none’ (‘Daily Telegraph’). Their appearances have won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.

Praise for Reginald Hill ‘Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo’s trademark humour’Daily Mirror‘These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados’Guardian'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction'Observer'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace'Donna Leon, Sunday Times'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'Ian Rankin

Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe, ‘the best detective duo on the scene bar none’ (‘Daily Telegraph’). Their appearances have won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.

Praise for Reginald Hill ‘Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duo’s trademark humour’Daily Mirror‘These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados’Guardian'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction'Observer'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace'Donna Leon, Sunday Times'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'Ian Rankin