I read these as fillers, but this one (which I have read before) is really good.
A succession of apparently unmotivated murders of young women in whichever North Yorkshire town they are set. Hill loves plot complexity and in his early-ish novels, like this, they really work. The murders appear motiveless, although each one is followed up by a call to the press with a quotation from Hamlet. There is a clever clue in the first sentence of the book.
When it all unravels towards the end, the whole plot has been beautifully structured. So very, very good.
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