The Mid-Yorkshire Gazette is having a short-story contest, and the
preliminary judges find an unusual entry: a so-called dialogue, though
only one voice is represented, which describes a murder–a murder which
happened before the entry was received, but was not discovered until
afterward. And then the receive another such entry, and then another….

This is Hill’s latest Dalziel/Pascoe novel; I picked it up in Australia
(it’s not available here in the States yet) and read it on the plane on
the way home. It was a remarkably good choice, much better than the
books I read on the flight out, and kept me thoroughly occupied for
hours. It’s as good anything else he’s done.

Interestingly, this book covers some of the same thematic territory that
Lawrence Block‘s
most recent, but does so far
more convincingly–and the ending is far more chilling. You’ll have to
read both to find out what I mean.