“ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT! GASPED PASCOE IN HIS AGONY.”Thus started A PINCH OF SNUFF by the celebrated British Crime author Reginald Hill, the fifth instalment of his crime novels featuring the protagonist duo of Andy “Fat man” Dalziel, his “sidekick” Peter Pascoe, and deftly helped by Sergeant Weild. A...
Unabridged Book #3blurb - Pascoe and his girlfriend Ellie arrive in Thornton Lacey to spend a weekend with old friends from their student days. They find instead three of their friends dead of shotgun wounds, and a fourth friend at large, sought by the local police as a suspect in the killings. Mean...
Classic Hill with scintillating use of language, puns, allusions, and a nifty mystery to boot. Not only that, you'll learn who the "funnyboogers" are. Some people dislike Hill's work as being too cerebral. Nonsense. They can be read on a multitude of levels, and Hill remains one of my favorite auth...
I opened this wondering if it was new to me—which yay, I loved the characters way back in high school, but no, I have read it before.Well, the real it, not the simplified version. Which...I don't get why it needs, but people like to trim, much as the character Patrick does.
A Northern England police procedural, and an introduction to Dalziel and Pascoe, the first in Hill's long running series. The book in itself is entertaining, and a solid work, but my rating is colored by the whole compendium of the series, and it is particularly enjoyable to revisit the beginning, ...
Second in the series, and the continuation of the definition of Dalziel as the irascible and politically incorrect force of nature, with Pascoe as the progressive with feet of clay university educated young and coming copper. And we find details of Pascoe's continuing relationship with Ellie, his t...
Ironically, the TV series featuring Dalziel and Pascoe retitled this book “Autumn Shroud.” I hate it when they do that. I’m a huge fan of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels.Following Pascoe’s wedding to Ellie, Andy is off on a two-week holiday but he has no idea what to do with himself other than drive ...
Another great entry in the Dalziel & Pascoe series. The action takes place over the course of one very eventful day. I love how Hill always keeps this series fresh and worth reading.
I found this book interesting in the beginning, but it was rapidly lost my interest through out it and I would pass it over for books that intrested me more. I don't know if it was the author's writing style...but I def. expected more out of this book from the description given.
I always enjoy encountering a short story collection by a novelist I've followed, especially a mystery novelist, because the constraints imposed by their usual "universe" are lifted, and even if the gathered material is necessarily more ephemeral, it's also more diverse and gives a stronger sense of...
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