Reginald Hill, acclaimed English crime writer, was a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe. Their appearances won Hill numerous awards, including a CWA Golden Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe stories were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series. Hill died in 2012.
"Suspense master Hill brings together...winning, spontaneous and blood-real characters." -- Kirkus Reviews"Engrossing." -- Publishers Weekly"A stellar stand-alone packed with compelling characters, provocative plot twists, and a potent sense of place." -- Booklist (starred review)"Hill is one of the masters of the genre." -- Denver Rocky Mountain News"Hill is one of the masters of the genre." -- Rocky Mountain News"Hill...captures his characters' contrasting viewpoints brilliantly." -- Denver Post
Fans of the witty Dalziel/Pascoe police procedurals (Good Morning, Midnight, etc.) by Diamond Dagger-winner Hill may be nonplussed by this stand-alone, a mix of historical mystery, gothic romance, ghost story and tutorial on religion and Norse mythology. Samantha "Sam" Flood, an Australian mathematics whiz, visits the isolated British village of Illthwaite before attending graduate school at Cambridge, hoping to discover the origins of her grandmother who emigrated from the place as a child. Miguel "Mig" Madero, a former novice priest now a history scholar, seeks the link between an ancestor who disappeared during the Spanish Armada defeat and a Catholic Illthwaite family. The villagers, quirky and devious, seem to know more than they'll reveal. Sam and Mig, initially antagonistic, join forces when their quests intersect. Spanning four centuries and related by several narrators, who slowly clarify the mystery, the book is too long and repetitive and seasoned with wild coincidences. Still, the engrossing historical background, especially Elizabeth I's campaign to eliminate English Catholicism, more than compensates. Agent, Caradoc King at A.P. Watt (U.K.). (Oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
"Suspense master Hill brings together...winning, spontaneous and blood-real characters." -- Kirkus Reviews"Engrossing." -- Publishers Weekly"A stellar stand-alone packed with compelling characters, provocative plot twists, and a potent sense of place." -- Booklist (starred review)"Hill is one of the masters of the genre." -- Denver Rocky Mountain News"Hill is one of the masters of the genre." -- Rocky Mountain News"Hill...captures his characters' contrasting viewpoints brilliantly." -- Denver Post
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