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Tag: Reginald Hill

A bait-and-switch plot that keeps you guessing right to the end

Read in 2009:The twenty-fourth Dalziel and Pascoe novel. Hill still at the top of his game, maybe even more so in this stripped-down tale of Dalziel’s first case after getting blown up by a bomb in The Death of Dalziel. All of the action takes place over one fraught day, and all the usual suspects,…

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A seamless interweaving of past and present (the Englands of Elizabeths I and II)

Hill’s last novel and he was still at the top of his form. Great characters in Sam, Mig, and Hill’s native Cumbria, two — or is it three — maybe four, actually, now that I count up — mysteries and two murders to solve, and a seamless interweaving of past and present (the Englands of…

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