On Beulah Height

Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday They moved everyone 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 nobody knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny LightfootThis 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 arise as someone sprays the deadly message on the wall of Danby: BENNY S BACK!Music and myth mingle as the Mid-Yorkshire team delve into their pasts and into their own reserves of experience and endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve.