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‘Reginald Hill writes brilliantly throughout, creating memorable characters with chiselled skill’
Sunday Times
‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’
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‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’ Marcel Berlins, The Times ‘[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one’s wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller’ Sunday Times
When a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is to be no routine investigation. Something about the child’s mother troubles him. Maybe it’s just the fact that she comes from Derry, and Cicero’s Northern Ireland scars go deeper than his ruined face. But he feels there’s more to it than that.
Why, for instance, is Superintendent Toby Tench leaving his devious Special Branch footprints all over Cicero’s Romchurch patch? And why does he want the courts to release Jane Maguire on bail after she makes an incriminating confession?
Tench plays his cards close to his chest, and Cicero finds the odds are stacked against him both personally and professionally – not that he will let that stop him. For Dog’s a gambling man, and when death’s the only game in town, a gambling man has got to play.
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Inspector Dog Cicero begins to investigate a missing child, whose disappearance looks suspiciously like a case of child abuse or even murder. The flaming red hair of the child's beautiful mother, Mrs. Jane Maguire, and her Irish lilt bring back painful memories of a time 10 years previously in Ireland with Special Services. His face was half blown off and the woman he loved was killed in a car bomb explosion set by the IRA. Jane reminds Dog of his lost lover and he cannot decide if his unwillingness to believe Jane guilty of the murder of her child is because of her resemblance to his former lover or to the paucity of facts supporting her guilt.
In his investigation Dog keeps stumbling over Superintendent Toby Tench of Special Branch and begins to wonder if there is more to Jane than meets the eye. The meanness and jealousy of Toby Tench, a schoolmate and bully from Dog's younger days have not improved and Dog must be not only circumspect but guarded to keep his disfigured body in one piece.
As the complex and riveting story plunges ahead with swiftness and clarity, Dog discovers not only what happened in Ireland 10 years previously but the story behind the mysterious Jane and her dead husband. Consummate gambler Uncle Endo, Dog's spiritual guide and teacher, has an aphorism (or are they really Dog's?) for every occasion and as the story races to it's surprising conclusion Dog places his life and happiness on the line.
This wonderfully written book has enough twists and turns to keep everyone guessing until the very end and enough gut wrenching scenes to keep the pages turning. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and recommend it to all mystery fans.
Reginald Hill really does have a great way of building up characters until they just jump off the page at you. he also is able to create really engaging and intriguing plots, which are always original. this is one qualifies yet again. it's a really well-paced book, and you get the impression that Hill is in complete control as he leads you by the nose to an excellent conclusion. and there are one or two really great twists right near the end that i just did not see coming.
Many people are familiar with the incomparable Pascoe and Dalziel series which has had a hugely successful and well-deserved run of some 25 years or more, but "The Only Game" and a dozen or so of Hill's non-P&D books deserve attention and admiration as well. These titles are not all that easy to find sometimes as they are mostly out of print (except for those under the Felony & Mayhem imprint), but they are often available through Amazon as used books. They--and certainly this title in question--are well worth looking for. Find "The Only Game" and buy it. It's a wonderful read.
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