Born Guilty - Reginald Hill

Few Writers In The Genre Today Have Hills Gifts: Formidable Intelligence, Quick Humour, Compassion And A Prose Style That Blends Elegance And Grace Donna Leon, Sunday Times Hurrying Out Of St Monkeys Church One Day, Joe Sixsmith Stumbles Across A Boys Corpse In A Cardboard Box And Into More Trouble Than Hes Ever Known. His Casebook Is Full To Bursting: Retired Colonial Mrs C. Demands To Know How The Boy Got There; Gallie, The Mutant From Outer Space, Urges Him To Find The Stranger Nosing Into Her Granddads Past; While Butcher, That Briefest Of Briefs, Is Hellbent On Digging The Dirt On A Deputy Heads Out-of-school Activities.