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'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, Observer
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‘Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder’ Observer
Life is a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapses into her Madam Louis Laperrieres and he inherits Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.
But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then retracts the accusation – the inspector is left with a thorny problem.
By then Police Cadet Singh, Mid-Yorkshire’s first Asian copper, had dug up some very interesting information about Patrick’s elegant wife Daphne.
Superintendent Dalziel, meanwhile, is attempting to relive the days of Empire with Singh as his tea-wallah.
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Author Hill gradually spins out Aldermann's strange history that begins as a illegitimate child and evolves into respectable, middle-class professional and family life through a series of apparently lucky events along the way. However, author tips his cards a bit to the reader in the first pages of the novel as youngster Aldermann is taught by an unsympathetic rich aunt that deadheading (cutting spent rose flowers) must be done in order to allow other "young buds to develop and flower." Is this a lecture that young Aldermann takes so seriously that people in his life are literally pruned out? That question is basically the plot of the book and author Hill keeps the reader confused and guessing right to the last page. Along the way, there are great characters, humor, humanity and a lot of information about roses. In fact, the latter opens each chapter of the book.
This is definitely right up there with the best of the Dalziel and Pascoe books. Great teasing story, fine character profiles and wonderful wit. Recommended.
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