Death's Jest Book

Author: Reginald Hill

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  • : $27.00 NZD
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  • : 9780007313204
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
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  • : 0.46
  • : June 2009
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 26.99
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  • : Reginald Hill
  • : Dalziel and Pascoe Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 823.914
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Barcode 9780007313204
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Description

Reginald Hill's best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: 'Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world' -- Independent

Reviews

'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 '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

Author description

Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his outstanding crime novels featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, 'the best detective duo on the scene bar none' (Daily Telegraph). His writing career began with the publication of A Clubbable Woman (1970), which introduced Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DS Peter Pascoe. With their subsequent appearances Reginald Hill has won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Assocation Cartier Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to the genre.