Asking for the Moon (36 page)

'Hill is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gilt'

frances fyfield,
Mail on Sunday

If you've already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you're in fora treat. If you
haven't
yet had the pleasure, you re in lor a revelation! Here in four stories we track their partnership from curtain-up to last act.

the Last
National
Service Man
reveals
the truth of their momentous first encounter, while
Pascoe's Ghost is a chilling tale taking us deep into Foe

o o I

country.
Dalziel's Ghost,
meanwhile, finds the man who wouldn't normally be seen dead in a
graveyard
expressing a surprising interest in the 'other side'. And finally. One
Small Step
takes a giant leap
forward
to 2010 and the first murder on the moo

All lour tales are told with the panache, ingenuity and wit which has won Reginald Hill his reputation as probably the finest living crime writer in the modern era.

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour arid a prose style that blends elegance and grace'

DONNA LEON,
Sunday Times

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