Praise for Death’s Jest-Book
‘This novel offers treats for many different kinds of readers. It has mysteries, solutions and an open ending too. Through Sergeant Wield, Dalziel, the Pascoe family, and the rest of the sprawling cast, Hill is anatomizing issues of life, death, truth and the nature of love in a series of novels that beguile and move.’
NATASHA COOPER, Times Literary Supplement
‘The criss-crossing between the three plots makes this long novel a fast read … Hill cannot write a dull sentence and Death’s Jest-Book is sheer entertainment’
PETER GUTTRIDGE, Observer
‘Reginald Hill is rightfully becoming recognized as one of Britain’s most ingenious crime writers. In Death’s Jest-Book, he skilfully blends an apparently obscure literary mystery with a gritty contemporary revenge tale … An intriguing mind twister work’
FRANK WINTLE, Daily Express
‘An intricately woven tale of rent boys, ex-cons and aspiring academics. It’s clever, involving and admirably resolved … No one does it better than Hill’
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, Guardian
‘The climax is superb, frightening and surprising, and everything falls into place brilliantly’
MARCEL BERLINS, The Times
‘A delight to read, written with a wit and appreciation of language rare, if not unique, in the genre’
TJ BINYON, Evening Standard
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‘A genuine master of British crime fiction’
JIM DRIVER, Time Out
‘The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight’
VAL MCDERMID, Sunday Express
‘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
‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining’
IAN RANKIN, Scotland on Sunday
‘Dalziel and Pascoe – the best cop double-act in the business’
MIKE RIPLEY, Daily Telegraph
‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’
TOM HINEY, Observer
‘An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’
FRANCES FYFIELD, Mail on Sunday
By Reginald Hill
Dalziel and Pascoe novels
A CLUBBABLE WOMAN
AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
RULING PASSION
AN APRIL SHROUD
A PINCH OF SNUFF
A KILLING KINDNESS
DEADHEADS
EXIT LINES
CHILD’S PLAY
UNDER WORLD
BONES AND SILENCE
RECALLED TO LIFE
PICTURES OF PERFECTION
THE WOOD BEYOND
ASKING FOR THE MOON: A DALZIEL AND PASCOE COLLECTION
ON BEULAH HEIGHT
ARMS AND THE WOMEN
DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD
DEATH’S JEST BOOK
GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT
THE DEATH OF DALZIEL
A CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
MIDNIGHT FUGUE
Joe Sixsmith novels
BLOOD SYMPATHY
BORN GUILTY
KILLING THE LAWYERS
SINGING THE SADNESS
THE ROAR OF THE BUTTERFLIES
Other
FELL OF DARK
THE LONG KILL
THE COLLABORATORS
DEATH OF A DORMOUSE
DREAM OF DARKNESS
THE ONLY GAME
THE STRANGER HOUSE
THE WOODCUTTER
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