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The Wood Beyond (Dalziel & Pascoe Novel) [Paperback]

Reginald Hill
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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3 Mar 2003 Dalziel & Pascoe Novel

‘Hill’s wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill’ Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday

A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead – this is not a World War One battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre.

Peter Pascoe attends his grandmother’s funeral, and scattering her ashes leads him too into wartorn woods in search of his great-grandfather who fought and died in Passchendaele.

Seeing the wood for the trees is the problem for Andy Dalziel when he finds himself fancying an animal rights activist, depite her possible complicity in a murderous assault and her appalling taste in whisky.

A mind-bending puzzle leading us on the wild side of the pastoral.



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  • Paperback: 500 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (3 Mar 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0006479944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006479949
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 669,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky’
Mail on Sunday

‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’
The Times

‘One of the masters of the modern police procedural’
Sunday Telegraph

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A ravaged, cratered wood, a man in uniform long dead – this is not a World War One battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre.

Away to the south, Peter Pascoe is attending his grandmother's funeral, and scattering her ashes leads him too into war-ravaged woods in search of his great-grandfather who fought and died in the Passchendaele campaign.

Seeing the wood for the trees is a problem for Andy Dalziel and Edgar Wield, the latter in his investigation into the bones found at Wanwood, and the former in his involvement with an animal rights activist, despite her possible complicity in a murderous assault and her appalling taste in whisky.

'The Wood Beyond' presents a cast of fascinating characters and a mind-bending puzzle, leading us to the wild side of the pastoral, through fields where nothing safely grazes, into woods where no bird dares sing…

"Richly woven and sublimely written, contrasting crimes and deceptions both ancient and modern"
MIKE RIPLEY, ' Daily Telegraph'

"This is as good as the English detective novel gets"
GQ


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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Prime Dalziel and Pascoe 12 Oct 2003
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If you are already familiar with Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series, recommending this one is not going to be a hard sell. If not, check this out and discover one of the contemporary masters of the crime novel.

This is an ambitious work; Hill clearly intends to transcend the police procedural genre, and includes a parallel story set in the ghastly killing fields of Passchendaele in the Great War that dovetails with the present-day police investigation that is the nominal subject of the book. It must be said that the interwoven story of Pascoe's ancestor (who shares his name) strains credulity; it's a literary construct that doesn't really come off.

But who cares? Hill as a writer is otherwise at the top of his game. It's full of witty dialogue (if only people in life -- myself included -- could set off such a string of verbal firecrackers, how much more entertaining our daily round would be!). Dalziel's Yorkshire dialect is a constant source of delight: I hope expressions like "nowt," "tha's," "lass," et al. aren't dying out. And as usual, the characters, especially the detectives and Pascoe's wife Ellie, are drawn in psychological depth.

The novel can be enjoyed as pure entertainment. But, notwithstanding the parallel story's unlikelihood, it offers a window into the ungodly horrors of life in the trenches in 1917 and the savagery of military "justice" in the British army of the time.

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5.0 out of 5 stars simply the best 14 April 2013
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Reginald has pulled it out of the bag again. This book has the usual banter between Dalziel and Pascoe etc. which makes me laugh out loud, but in addition has some throw backs to the first world war which has made me want to research deeper into that particular war. I love this series of books and would rate them all 5, but this one, if I could, I would give it a 10 and I havent quite finished reading it yet!
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2.0 out of 5 stars A unlikely story 9 April 2013
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How do I begin, I can't! This plot is so far fetched that it must take a strange imagination to think of it, I personally wouldn't recommend it, and perhaps I maybe in the minority but I can't see where all the good reviews of this author come from, tedium springs to mind reading his books, I think the tv adaptation of Dalziel and Pascoe worked, and whoever scripted it had fantastic vision, to get a spark of inspiration from these dreary books.
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