On Beulah Height

"'On Beulah Height' must rank as his best yet...Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining"
IAN RANKIN They moved everyone out of Dendale that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too. But four inhabitants of the valley they couldn't move, for no one knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot. This was Andy Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It's another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and old fears resurface as someone sprays the deadly message on the walls of Danby:
BENNY'S BACK "All Reginald Hill's novels are brilliantly written, but he has excelled himself here"
'Evening Standard' "A long, richly complex, often lyrical and genuinely haunting crime novel"
'Daily Telegraph'

Reginald Hill, who died in 2012, was a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe. Their appearances won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger, the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe novels were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.