UNDER WORLD: Book 10 (Dalziel & Pascoe) - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000731311X ISBN 13: 9780007313112

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-06-25 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield. Mail on Sunday.When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe. the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened. but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide - though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft.Returning to a town he left in anger. Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble. and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe. trouble starts ... Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines. until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him...

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Review:

‘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

‘The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight’ Val McDermid, Sunday Express

‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent

‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining’ Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

Synopsis:

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide -- though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft. Returning to a town he left in anger, Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble, and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe, trouble starts! Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines, until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community!

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 000731311X
• ISBN 13: 9780007313112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428