Singing The Sadness

'Reginald Hill is one of the few English crime writers who can hold their own against the Americans...there is a wonderful wit and dexterity about his writing' - KATE ATKINSON 'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts' - SUNDAY TIMES Joe Sixsmith is going to Wales, where they keep a welcome in the hillside and the Boyling Corner Choir has been invited to compete in the Llanffugiol Choral Festival. But instead of a welcome, all they find on the hillside is a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Add to this an aggressive policeman, a patronizing headmaster, a drug-dealing student, a gang of locals bent on sabotaging the festival, and a caretaker's daughter who seems ready to go to extraordinary lengths to take care of Joe, and there is the kind of criminous confusion which the famous Sixsmith detective technique soon turns into utter chaos.