Under World (CH) (Charnwood Library)

"Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction." OBSERVER When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide - though others wondered about the man's fatal plunge into a disused mine shaft. Returning to a town he left in anger, Colin Farr's homecoming is ready for trouble, and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe, trouble starts... Meanwhile, a murder in Burrthorpe Mine forces Andy Dalziel to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community...