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From Publishers Weekly

The British author's faultless writing, ironic wit andabove allrecognizably human characters defy limiting his police stories to the mystery category. In the 10th novel featuring mild Detective Pascoe and his chief, Superintendent Detective Dalziel, the reader feels the tensions in their Yorkshire mining town, partly caused by handsome young Colin Farr. After a long absence, Colin comes home, where he hears revived rumors about his late father, Billy. Although respected and even loved, Billy is suspected by some of having killed himself after murdering a little girl whose body has never been found. Dalziel, whose rough and irreverent persona hides a caring heart, worries about trouble brewing in his town and possible threats to Pascoe's marriage. As a volunteer at the local university, Pascoe's wife Ellie tutors Colin and takes more than a teacherly interest in him. Crises proliferate in the wake of Colin's drunken rampages and his disappearance after the murder of a man the young fugitive hates. Acting on instinct, Pascoe races to a mine and down the shaft; Dalziel reaches him just before they are trapped by a cave-in. The dark drama is fittingly played out underground.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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 last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into a disused mine shaft.

Returning to the 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, Andy Dalziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines, until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community.

"He is first and foremost and instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift"
FRANCES FYFIELD, ' Mail on Sunday'

"A rich multi-layered novel; genuinely puzzling and satisfactorily resolved"
PHILIP OAKES, 'Literary Review'

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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