Hill is on top form in this sixth story in the Dalziel and Pascoe seriesHill is on top form in this sixth story in the Dalziel and Pascoe seriesWhen Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway.If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums – it’s all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him.And meanwhile the Choker strikes again – and again…‘Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace’ Donna Leon, Sunday Times‘The finest male English contemporary crime writer’ Val McDermid‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining’Ian Rankin‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’ The Times‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky – rounded, rich, intoxicating… Here is an author at his formidable best’Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’ Sunday Telegraph‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’ Tom Hiney, ObserverReginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe, ‘the best detective duo on the scene bar none’ (‘Daily Telegraph’). Their appearances have won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.• 10 million-rated hit BBC TV series• Stunning new look for Reginald Hill• The last two Dalziel and Pascoe novels, Dialogues of the Dead and Death’s Jest-Book, were Top Ten bestsellers.• Gold and Diamond Dagger award winner• Sales of each new frontlist title now top 110,000 copies
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