'He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' Andrew Taylor, Independent 'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times 'The finest male English contemporary crime writer' Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News 'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday Praise for Arms and the Women: 'Luminously written, thrilling in the best old-fashioned sense of the word, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail 'Brilliantly written, highly amusing and extraordinarily readable' T J Binyon, Evening Standard
