Death's Jest-Book
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Bestselling and Diamond Dagger award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets up a battle of wills between determined cops Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe and an elusive and ingenious villain in a “dazzling” novel of psychological suspense (New York Times Book Review).
Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he’s determined to get his man.
Meanwhile, Pascoe’s colleague Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a boy in danger and in return, the boy tips him off about the heist of a priceless treasure. Soon Wield is torn between protecting the lad and doing his duty.
Over all this activity broods the huge form of Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds, Dalziel discovers that omniscience can be more trouble than it’s worth.
Reginald Hill
Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe, ‘the best detective duo on the scene bar none’ (‘Daily Telegraph’). Their appearances have won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hops about a bit - but in the end the three threads merge well to a good climatic ending
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another entertaining, complex Dalziel and Pascoe novel. This time the literary hook is the relatively obscure Romantic poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and we have an engaging bit of academic skulduggery involving competing biographies. A small irritation is that neither the author nor the publisher has bothered to get a native speaker to check the little bits of German that are scattered throughout the text, leaving a number of annoying little typos. Not very professional.Something to be aware of is that, whilst most of the D&P novels are essentially self-contained, this one follows closely on from Dialogues of the Dead — in essence, it's a reopening of that case — so, especially if you are obsessive about spoilers, make sure you've read the earlier book first.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The usual casr of inmates in Yorkshire's fictional police department, this account weaves three separate stories into one. A recently released, wrongly accused felon and his weird relationship with the officer who put him in prison intertwined with a young constable's fatal attraction to his librarian amour; topped-off by another officer's alternative lifestyle that includes a homeless boy who feeds him news of local criminal activity.All in all a good read, but sometimes confusing as it jumps from story to story and character to character.