onto the next dalziel and pascoe. you can see this series is good but these early books have nothing like the power i saw in on beulah height. this one is a tale of two villages, two plots tangled up together and pascoe can’t tell which is which. i like the way that every little detail seems to count; nothing is filler; every subplot has a purpose in the wider plot. i know it’s only book three but it’s been the most satisfying so far.

i’ve noticed in putting these web pages together that the early hill books aren’t in print in the states as they are here. i suspect their popularity in the uk has been boosted tremendously by the tv series. i’ve only seen one episode of it but i thought it was pretty well done. anyway, i’m glad these books from the early seventies are still in print for me to enjoy however that came to be.

(this is book 3 in the dalziel and pascoe series)