- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; TV tie-in edition edition (3 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006499899
- ISBN-13: 978-0006499893
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,530,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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When a girl 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". If Detective-Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is furious when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.
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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is Hill on top form. The dour Dalziel works splendidly with the softer Pascoe to build the tension in this tightly plotted murder. There are moments of genuine spine tingling thrill here which pleased me greatly.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is not Hill at his best as the previous reviewer claims. This, I think, is Hill at almost his worst. I love the Dalziel & Pascoe books and have been impressed by Hill's literary knowledge and references, his close attention to detail, his sly wit, his effective vocabulary, his character development, and his engrossing style. This is an early Dalziel & Pascoe (copyright originally 1980) and it shows throughout. The fat man and Pascoe are still caricatures and the story line is somewhat thin and bounces all over the place. His more recent works present a more well-rounded Dalziel (figuratively and metaphorically), a more compassionate Pascoe, and a number of other recurring characters who have become human instead of stick figures. Still, Hill, even early Hill, is mostly a treat.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A little taste of murder and Hamlet!
26 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
Reginald Hill is an author to be reckonned with in the British procedural genre, and his long-running Dalziel and Pascoe series is a winner. Any of the many books is a fine example of intelligent writing. This book is not a disappointment. It is a book where Pascoe figures a bit more prominently than Dalziel, but we do have Andy there in key spots. It gives us lots of examples of his blustery non-sequitors. Dalziel and his crew are trying to unmask the Yorkshire choker who has a taste for the Elizabethan bard (in particular the play "Hamlet"). We also have a clan of gypsies to help make things interesting. This is intelligent writing that keeps you guessing until the end. Hill has an uncanny ability to set his novels so realistically, and his very human characters help to reel us in. Don't pass up this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Vintage Dalziel and Pascoe
6 April 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The thing with Reginald Hill is that almost all of his books are intelligent, engaging and full of well-developed characters. So the spectrum of writing is good to incredibly good. This early D&G entry, "A Killing Kindness" is closer to the good end than to the great. Author Hill puts a heavy focus on the procedural side of detective work as the dynamic duo plus the estimable Sergeant Wield track a serial killer with a penchant for explaining himself/herself with quotes from Shakespeare. Additional color is added with a look at English gypsies who inhabit the story start to finish.
For regular fans of Dalziel and Pascoe, who haven't gotten to this novel yet, this is number five in the series, chronicling a well-developed relationship between the two cops and including a pregnant Ellie Pascoe and a still-in-the-closet and lovelorn Sergeant Wield. It's a good read with plenty of indications of the great things that are to follow in this series.
For regular fans of Dalziel and Pascoe, who haven't gotten to this novel yet, this is number five in the series, chronicling a well-developed relationship between the two cops and including a pregnant Ellie Pascoe and a still-in-the-closet and lovelorn Sergeant Wield. It's a good read with plenty of indications of the great things that are to follow in this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
What do you think, Peter?
26 April 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As a fan of the PBS series about Dalziel and Pascoe, I thoroughly enjoyed the narration of Colin Buchanan, who plays Pascoe, in this audio version of the novel. Actually, this one should be entitled Pascoe and Dalziel, as Peter plays the major role in this investigation of a series of stranglings. Witty, humane, and entertaining, Reginald Hill does his usual admirable job tackling such issues as racism and prejudice. Gypsies, divorce, and adolescent mistakes all figure prominently in this mystery. Buchanan's dialects and voices make differentiating among characters easy for the listener. Very enjoyable.
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