`Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Observer
Reginald Hill Books
April 3, 1936 – January 12, 2012
This English author was renowned for his immersive crime fiction. His works often feature deep psychological insight into characters and intricate plots. He created an extensive series of novels following Yorkshire detectives, for which he remains celebrated. Beyond this, he explored other genres, including short stories and ghost tales, demonstrating his literary versatility.
One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' The Times [Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one's wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller' Sunday Times
The Only Game
- 316 pages
- 12 hours of reading
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
`Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
Deadheads. Dalziel & Pascoe, No 7
- 309 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A blend of humor and current themes unfolds along a mysterious path of murder.
A killing kindness
- 303 pages
- 11 hours of reading
'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant. Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums -- it's all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him. And meanwhile the Choker strikes again -- and again!
`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
A Christmassy crime collection - the perfect gift this winter!
On Beulah Height
- 548 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Into thin air... Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies--or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be . . . except in Dalziel's memory. Twelve years later, the threads of past and present are slowly winding into a chilling mosaic. A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale's ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley. And now the identity of a killer rests on what one child saw . . . and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember . . . .
The Wood Beyond
- 500 pages
- 18 hours of reading
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.
