' Reginald Hill stands head & shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Observer PI can mean many things but can it really mean a balding middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you'd have to be crazy to hire him & Joe's current clients certainly fit the bill. One seems to be confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she's a witch. Alongside them the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal. In the past Reginald Hill has brought wit style & compassion to police investigation. Now he does the same for the private sector &
- in perhaps his greatest feat of creation
- reinvents Luton in the process.