"The time has come for full recognition of Hill's superlative novels." Today Detective-Superintendent Andy Dalziel has witnessed a murder - butit was through a glass and he was being sick at the time - was he mistaken? He has other irritations to contend with, including a woman threatening suicide - who is she? Peter Pascoe walks into all this on his return from a long convalescence. He must divert Dalziel's obsessional pursuit of a probably innocent man and make up for his scornful neglect of a suicidal woman. "...the best pair of working coppers in the business." The Observer