Bones and Silence

WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR When Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure who the culprit is. After all, he's got to believe in what he sees with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see? And is he mistaken? Peter Pascoe thinks so. Dalziel senses the doubters around him, which only strengthens his resolve. To make matters worse, he's being pestered by an anonymous letter-writer, threatening suicide. Worse still, Pascoe seems intent on reminding him of the fact. Meanwhile, the effervescent Eileen Chung is directing the Mystery Plays. And who does she have in mind for God? Dalziel, of course. He shouldn't have too much difficulty in acting the part... "Hill walks the high wire without a slip, in what is certainly his finest book"
JULIAN SYMONS, ' Independent'

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.