into Thin Air...three Little Girls, One By One, Had Vanished From The Farming Village Of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, A Young Detective In Those Days, Never Found Their Bodies—or The Person Who Snatched Them. Then The Valley Where Dendale Stood Was Flooded To Create A Reservoir, And The Town Itself Ceased To Be . . . Except In Dalziel's Memory.twelve Years Later, The Threads Of Past And Present Are Slowly Winding Into A Chilling Mosaic. A Drought And Dropping Water Table Have Brought Dendale's Ruins Into View. And A Little Girl Has Gone Missing From A Nearby Village. Helped By Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, An Older, Fatter, And Wiser Dalziel Has A Second Chance To Uncover The Secrets Of A Drowned Valley. And Now The Identity Of A Killer Rests On What One Child Saw . . . And What Another, Now Grown, Fears With All Her Heart To Remember . . . .marilyn Stasioever The Master Of Form And Sorcerer Of Style, Reginald Hill Takes His Dalziel And Pasco Procedural Series To Highest Ground With on Beulah Height. -- ny Times Book Review