I read Reginald Hill’s Death’s Jest-Book in the fall of 2003, noting favourite turns of phrases and extended thoughts as I went. Here are a few from this master of language and characteris… more →
Beyond Rivalrywrote 2 days ago: Title: Independent Travel Fandom: Reginald Hill’s Dalziel & Pascoe series Pairing: Wield/D … more →
wrote 2 days ago: Title: Of a Night Fandom: Reginald Hill’s Dalziel & Pascoe series Pairing: Wield/Digweed W … more →
wrote 2 days ago: Title: Strays Fandom: Reginald Hill’s Dalziel & Pascoe series Pairing: Wield/Digweed Warni … more →
wrote 2 months ago: As the deadline crunch approaches for the BookPage Whodunit column each month, several last-minute m … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Title: Simple Fandom: Reginald Hill’s Dalziel & Pascoe & Wield series Pairing: Wield/D … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Among all the mundane business of moving house I have found the time to submit a couple of things la … more →
wrote 7 months ago: … thanks for the feedback on Pt I of this topic. The first step in writing a review is to read … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Following on from my earlier post on accents (and if you haven’t read that, this might not mak … more →
wrote 9 months ago: A pet hate of mine, or rather a regular cause of exasperated fuming, is the bizarre and unnecessary … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Just finished Reginald Hill’s The Price of Butcher’s Meat (2008; published as A Cure for … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Shelf Awareness briefly interviews one of my favourite crime novelists, Reginald Hill, for their dai … more →
wrote 1 year ago: And Who does not just LOVE that!!! A while back the kind people at Harper Collins Publishers sent ou … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Dalziel rides again Rumours of the death of Superintendent Andy Dalziel have been greatly exaggerate … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Remember when books were generally quite thin? I mean general fiction paperbacks in particular, befo … more →
wrote 2 years ago: The Death of Dalziel is the latest in Reginald Hill’s long-running series of the Dalziel and Pascoe … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Just finished Hill’s Underworld (1988), in the Dalziel/Pascoe police procedural series set in … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Does everyone in the English-speaking world know how great a writer Reginald Hill is? Man, the man c … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Dear Readers: Many of you know that the Book Goddess loves mysteries, especially literary mysteries … more →
wrote 3 years ago: This is the fourth of the novels about Joe Sixsmith, a redundant lathe operator turned private eye f … more →