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Reginald Hill - Page 1

The Death of Dalziel

The Stranger House

Good Morning, Midnight

Death's Jest Book

Dialogues Of The Dead

Audio Titles

A Profile of Lord Byron by Reginald Hill

Dalziel & Pascoe TV Series

Reginald Hill's Dalziel & Pascoe Series

About the Author (Photo (c) Tony Davis)

Bibliography

Hardback
Harpercollins (2007)

The Death of Dalziel
Can it be true?
Has the Fat Man really sung?
Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death’s door might he his own size (and indomitable willpower).
As he lies on a hospital bed, it falls on DCI Peter Pascoe to seek justice for Andy. The security services have written it off as an accident - the terrorist suspects have paid for their clumsiness with their live>.
Who, then, are the Knights Templar, a shadowy group exacting summary public justice on their enemies? Pascoe is certain of a conspiracy and the attempted murder of Yorkshire Police’s most inept officer only convinces him further.
But if the plot is complex, the climax will prove astounding…
Acclaim For Reginald Hill
‘The best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent
‘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
‘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
`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
`No one does it better than Hill’ Guardian
‘Reginald Hill is writing very much at the top of his form’ Evening Standard
`A genuine master of British crime fiction’ Jim Driver, Time Out

First British Edition Harpercollins (2005)

The Stranger House
Things move slowly in the village of Illthwaite, but that’s about to change with the arrival of two strangers intent on digging up bits of the past the locals would rather keep buried. Sam Flood is a young Australian mathematician whose grandmother was dispatched from Illthwaite four decades ago, courtesy of the Child Migrant scheme. Miguel Mandero, a drop-out from a Spanish seminary, has come to the Stranger House in pursuit of an ancestor last seen setting sail with the Great Armada.
The antipathy between them is instant and mutual, but as they follow their separate quests their paths become increasingly entangled, with clashes physical and metaphysical, and shocks natural and supernatural, as the tension mounts to an explosive climax.
All the elements we have come to expect form Reginald Hill’s writing – mystery, humour, elegant style, intricate plotting, fascinating characters, and a strong sense of history – combine here to create what must be his finest novel yet.

First British Edition Harpercollins (2004)

Good Morning, Midnight
Like father like son...
But heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver’s suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier.
In each case accusing fingers point towards Pal’s stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire’s own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel.
DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in charge of the investigation, finds he is constantly body-checked by his superior as he tries to disentangle the complex relationships of the Maciver family. What really happened between Pal and his stepmother? And how has key witness and exotic hooker Dolores, Our Lady of Pain, contrived to disappear from the face of Mid-Yorkshire?
Gradually, however, it becomes clear that the fall-out from Pal’s suicide spreads far beyond Yorkshire.
To London, to America. Even to Iraq. But the emotional epicentre is firmly placed in Mid-Yorkshire where Pascoe comes to learn that for some people the heart too is a locked room, and in there it is always midnight.

First British Edition Harpercollins (2002)

Death's Jest Book
Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he’s determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Meanwhile, Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a child in danger, only to find he’s got a rent-boy under his wing. In return, the boy tips him off about the heist of a priceless treasure, and soon Wieldy is torn between protecting the lad and doing his duty.
His superiors might have worries, but DC Bowler is looking forward to a blissful New Year with the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, her dreams are filled with a horror too terrible to tell...
And over all this activity broods the huge form of Mid-Yorkshire CID’s First Mover, DS Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds, the Fat Man discovers (as many deities before him) that omniscience can be more trouble than it’s worth, and that sometimes all omnipotence means is that you can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black.
'Read him' John Lennard, London Review of Books
'He just keeps getting better and better… Hill, a true master, never fails to shock and surprise' Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

Paperback - Harpercollins (2002)

First British Edition Harpercollins (2001)

Dialogues Of The Dead
See Review by Bernard Knight - Author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series set in Medieval Devon
See Review by Cath Staincliffe - Author of the highly acclaimed Sal Kilkenny Mysteries set on the Mean Streets of Manchester
A new Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer
In the Beginning was the Word -
A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents - yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility for the deaths.
In Mid-Yorkshire CID the word is heard but not believed. Even Hat Bowler, the young DC who first gets a hold of the story, only pretends to take it seriously in order to get closer to the girl of his dreams, librarian Raina Pomona. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman.
Gradually the hunt focuses on three main suspects. Still Dialogue follows Dialogue and funeral follows funeral, till finally Hat Bowler, who is at odds with his girlfriend over the direction of the police investigation, begins to fear that she may be about to find out he’s right in the worst possible way.
Reginald Hill’s books are always full of word games, but they have rarely been so important as they are here. There are enough clues to weave a tapestry, but in this game just who is playing against whom? Is it the Wordman versus the police? Or the killer against his victims? Or is the real game between you, dear reader, and Reginald Hill himself, at his most intriguing, most enticing, most elusive best?
‘The narrative drive is strong, red herrings and clues abound, and the hunt for the killer is fierce. The dialogue is laugh-out-loud and offensive, one of the many things readers have come to love in Hill’s books. The ending would seem to break the rules, were it not that Hill has been proving for decades that he writes too well to need to respect any rules’ Donna Leon, Sunday Times
‘A masterly ploy, about serial murders linked to puzzles against the background of a newspaper short story competition that becomes literally lethal . . The outcome is satisfyingly gruesome - and deeply worrying, too’ Gerald Kaufman, Scotsman
‘Dialogues of the Dead is a celebration of the power, trickery, wit and entertainment that words afford us. It also boasts a high body count, a rich vein of farce and writing to savour’ Cath Staincliffe, Manchester Evening News
‘A beast of a novel that’d make a good doorstop if it wasn’t such compelling reading… Aside from Hill’s typically Dickensian cast of characters, there’s a return visit from Pascoe’s nemesis, Fran Roote, more red herrings than you’ll find in a Chinese fish market, and fiendish word puzzles you’ll kick yourself for not solving. Another winner from a genuine master of British crime fiction’ Jim Driver, Time Out
‘The latest outing for cantankerous Dalziel and suave Pascoe also comes up trumps with a witty demonstration of wordplay by the Yorkshire cop duo . . . Hill, tongue firmly in cheek, spins clever variations on the traditional cop thriller and never ceases to surprise, even on the 18th time around the block with his inimitable characters’ Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
‘A satisfying read . . . Twist follows twist in a brilliant, bloody, totally unexpected climax that shows Hill at his most macabrely inventive’ Marcel Berlins, The Times
‘Reginald Hill is writing very much at the top of his form: easily, unconstrainedly, and with absolutely no striving after effect: nevertheless, brilliant effects are constantly produced, and it’s a rare page that doesn’t produce a laugh or at least a snigger . . . The cleverest crime novel of the year, and also one of the most enjoyable’ T J Binyon, Evening Standard
‘Witty and engaging . . . an almost perfect detective novel’ Harriet Waugh, Spectator
‘As always in Hill’s complex and multi-layered novels, the personal relationships of the central protagonists assume an increasingly tangled connection to the unravelling of the case. There is an entertaining subsidiary cast of characters, too, whose foibles allow full rein to the more wicked side of Hill’s wit. Any encounter with his exuberant talent is sheer pleasure for the aficionado of the crime novel’ Val Mcdermid, Sunday Express
‘Reginald Hill is clearly having a very good time in Dialogues of the Dead. There are murders aplenty . . . but there’s also pretty much a laugh a line… a highly engaging read’ Peter Guttridge, observer

About The Author
Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire where his Dalziel and Pascoe ( 'the best detective duo on the scene bar none' Daily Telegraph) novels are set. The books have now been adapted into a successful BBC television series.
Reginald Hill says he always regarded himself as a writer of some sort, but until he wrote A Clubbable Woman which introduced Andy Dalziel and a young Peter Pascoe, he had managed to avoid putting his theory to the test. Since then he has received ample confirmation.
Latterly he has cast his net further south with the introduction of Joe Sixsmith, the serendipitous PI whose appearances have helped confirm Hill's claim as 'our finest living crime writer' (Sunday Telegraph). Recently awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to the genre, Hill says he hopes that this is a bit premature and the best is yet to come!

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

The Death of Dalziel (Harpercollins, 2007)

The Stranger House (Harpercollins, 2005)

Good Morning, Midnight (Harpercollins, 2004) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Death's Jest Book (Harpercollins, 2002) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Dialogues Of The Dead (Harpercollins, 2001) Harpercollins Pbk Mar 02

Arms and the Women (Harpercollins, 2000) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Singing the Sadness (Harpercollins, 1999) Harpercollins Pbk Jan 00 (Joe Sixsmith)

On Beulah Height (Harpercollins, 1998) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

The Four Clubs (Severn House, 1997)

Killing the Lawyers (Harpercollins, 1997) Harpercollins Pbk 1998 (Joe Sixsmith)

Asking For The Moon Short Stories (Harpercollins, 1996)

The Wood Beyond (Harpercollins, 1996) Harpercollins Pbk 1998 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Born Guilty (Harpercollins, 1995) (Joe Sixsmith)

Pictures of Perfection (Collins, 1994) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Blood Sympathy (Harpercollins, 1993) (Joe Sixsmith)

Brother's Keeper Short Stories (Eurographica, 1992)

Recalled to Life ( 1992) ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

The Only Game (Harpercollins, 1991) As Patrick Ruell Harpercollins Pbk 1997

Bones and Silence (Collins, 1990) Harpercollins Pbk 1998 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

One Small Step ( 1990) Novella

Dream of Darkness (Methuen, 1989) As Patrick Ruell Harpercollins Pbk 1997

Under World (Collins, 1988) now a BBC TV production Harpercollins Pbk 1998 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Death of a Doormouse (Methuen, 1987) As Patrick Ruell

There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union Short Stories (Collins, 1987) 6 stories - 1 with Dalziel & Pascoe, 1 with Sixsmith

Child's Play (Harpercollins, 1987) now a BBC TV production Harpercollins Pbk 1998 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

The Long Kill (Methuen, 1986) As Patrick Ruell Harpercollins Aug 98

Exit Lines (Collins, 1984) now a BBC TV production Harpercollins Pbk 1998 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Deadheads (Harpercollins, 1983) now a BBC TV production Harpercollins Pbk 1997 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Traitor's Blood (Collins, 1983)

Who Guards a Prince? (Collins, 1982)

A Killing Kindness (Collins, 1980) now a BBC TV production ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

The Spy's Wife (Collins, 1980)

Pascoe's Ghost Short Stories (Collins, 1979) 7 stories - 2 Dalziel & Pascoe

A Pinch of Snuff (Collins, 1978) Harpercollins Pbk 1978 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Another Death in Venice (Collins, 1976)

Urn Burial (Hutchinson, 1975) As Patrick Ruell

An April Shroud (Collins, 1975) now a BBC TV production ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Death Takes the Low Road (Hutchinson, 1974) As Patrick Ruell

A Very Good Hater (Collins, 1974)

Ruling Passion (Collins, 1973) now a BBC TV production Harpercollins Pbk 1997 ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

An Advancement of Learning (Collins, 1973) now a BBC TV production ( Dalziel & Pascoe)

Red Christmas (John Long, 1972)

A Fairly Dangerous Thing (Collins, 1972)

Fell of Dark (Harpercollins, 1971) Harpercollins Dec 98 Harpercollins Pbk 1998

The Castle of the Demon (John Long, 1971) As Patrick Ruell

A Clubbable Woman (Collins, 1970) now a BBC TV production ( Dalziel & Pascoe)