"The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never ceases to delight." Val Mc Dermid, author of Fever of the Bone In a stand-alone psychological thriller from acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill, a mysterious ex-con returns to his remote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge. Combining the chilling atmospheres of Thomas Harriss The Silence of the Lambs, the narrative ingenuity of P.D. Jamess The Private Patient, and the compelling characterizations of Hills own Dalziel and Pascoe series, Hill delivers a frightful, fast-paced study of suspense at its most sinister in The Woodcutter.