Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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.
<p>‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky’<br />Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’<br />The Times</p>
<p>‘One of the masters of the modern police procedural’<br />Sunday Telegraph</p>
‘Hill’s wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill’ Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday
When animal-rights activists uncover a long-dead uniformed body in the grounds of Wanwood House, a research facility, Dalziel is presented with a seemingly insoluble mystery. And he is further perplexed when he’s attracted to one of the campaigners – now implicated in a murderous assault.
Meanwhile, the death of his grandmother has led Peter Pascoe to the battlefields of World War 1 and the enigma of who his grandfather was – and why he had to die.
• Gold and Diamond Dagger winner Reginald Hill is recognised as one of our finest crime writers
• The new Dalziel and Pascoe BBC TV series due this year.
• New cover reissue to tie in with stylish new livery for Hill’s backlist
• PB of On Beulah Height did 100,000 and hit the bestseller lists
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Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
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.