Singing The Sadness

Product Description

‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’ Sunday Times
Joe Sixsmith is going west, though only as far the Llanffugiol Choral Festival in Wales. But his plans are interrupted when they happen upon a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside.
Joe risks life and limb to rescue the woman, only to be roped in to the investigation by the police officer in charge. Suddenly surrounded by a bevy of suspicious characters, he soon realizes that this case is much more than just arson.
Aided by little more than his acute instinct for truth, Joe moves forward over the space of a single weekend to uncover crimes which have been buried for years.

Review

‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’Observer
‘This is high-speed pantomine… with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday (of Singing the Sadness)

From the Back Cover

Joe Sixsmith is going west. But only as far as Wales where they keep a welcome in the hillside and the Boyling Corner Choir has been invited to compete in the Llanffugiol Choral Festival. Trouble is, no one seems to have heard of Llanffugiol. And instead of a welcome, all they find on the hillside is a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside.
Soon Joe is trapped by a whole bevy of suspicious characters, not to mention the kind of criminous confusion that turns into utter chaos when confronted with the famous Sixsmith detection technique.
Joe is no quitter, though. Doggedly, aided by little more than that instinct for truth which is his unique talent, he moves forward over the space of a single weekend to uncover crimes which have lain buried for years.
“This is high-speed pantomime . . . with plenty of sly dialogue to spice the action'”FRANCES FYFIELD, 'Mail on Sunday'
“A new book from Reginald Hill is always cause for rejoicing”DONNA LEON, 'Sunday Times'

About the Author

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.