Under World

¿Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift¿ Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayYears ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide.Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A man¿s body is discovered down a mine shaft and it¿s clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and Pascoe¿s investigation takes them to the heart of a frightened and hostile community. But could the key to the present-day investigation lie in the past when little Tracey vanished into thin air¿?