• Death Comes for the Fat Man was an IndieBound bestseller, and Reginald Hill’s previous three hardcovers, The Stranger House, Good Morning, Midnight, and Death’s Jest-Book were Indie Next picks.
• Hill is a bestseller in the U.K. who has won multiple awards, including Britain’s most prestigious mystery writers award, the Diamond Dagger, as well as the Golden Dagger and the Crime Writers Association’s major new award, the Mystery and Thriller People’s Choice Dagger. He has been called the best living male crime writer in the English speaking world.
• Harper will publish the mass market edition of The Price of Butcher’s Meat in October of 2009.

Andy Dalziel, back at work after a long convalescence, is finding it harder to get back in the swing than he anticipated. When old acquaintance Commander Ed Purdy of the Met asks him to help Gina Wolfe, who has come to Mid-Yorkshire in search of a husband missing for seven years, he sees the case as the perfect light diversion to help him get back up to speed.

But things soon turn serious. Gina’s husband was a D.I.under strain after the death of their young daughter and under suspicion after serious leaks involving a case he was working. Is he in fugue, or is he in flight? Or was he simply removed thanks to the machinations of his suspect, black entrepreneur Goldie Gidman—an East End loan shark turned city financier with deep political connections. A major political contributor and father to a rising young MP, Gidman himself is under the scrutiny of a left-wing tabloid journalist. And up in Yorkshire, Gina is being shadowed by two ruthless henchman from Gidman’s past.

Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London, Midnight Fugue is a riveting, complex story that builds to a dramatic, twisting conclusion.