Fell of Dark

Fell of Dark by Hill, Reginald. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780006510741.

A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if hes going in search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly theres no doubt about it. Hes running. Set in his native Cumberland, this was Reginald Hills very first novel and its cleverly interwoven strands of detective story, psychological thriller and Buchanesque adventure prefigure much that in the intervening decades has taken him into the topmost ranks of British crime fiction.