Under World

Under World
Reginald Hill

‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayYears ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide.Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A man’s body is discovered down a mine shaft and it’s clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and Pascoe’s investigation takes them to the heart of a frightened and hostile community. But could the key to the present-day investigation lie in the past when little Tracey vanished into thin air…?

REGINALD HILL

UNDER WORLD

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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The quotations on pages 1, 9, 125, 329 and 421, are from

Dante’s Inferno translated by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by Penguin Books Ltd.

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Epigraph (#ulink_557cca05-2f39-57c7-9f8a-d5a06043f88b)

Hear truth: I stood on the steep brink whereunder

Runs down the dolorous chasm of the Pit,

Ringing with infinite groans like gathered thunder.

Deep, dense, and by no faintest glimmer lit

It lay, and though I strained my sight to find

Bottom, not one thing could I see in it.

Down must we go, to that dark world and blind.

Contents

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