Child’s Play: Book 9 (Dalziel & Pascoe) - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007313101 ISBN 13: 9780007313105

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

Synopsis

Title: Child's Play <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Reginald Hill <>Publisher: Harper Collins Paperbacks

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Review:

‘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

‘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

‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent

‘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’ Francis Fyfield, Mail On Sunday

From the Back Cover:

Geraldine Lomas's son went missing in Italy during World War Two, but the eccentric old lady never accepted his death.

Now she is dead, leaving the Lomas beer fortune to be divided between an animal rights organisation, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. As disgruntled relatives gather by the graveside, the funeral is interrupted by a middle-aged man in an Italian suit, who falls to his knees crying, 'Mama!'

Andy Dalziel is preoccupied with the illegal book one of his sergeants is running on who is to be appointed as the new Chief Constable. But when a dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play...

"Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer homebred crime fiction".
Tom Hiney, 'Observer'

"So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder".
Susanna Yager, 'Sunday Telegraph'

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007313101
• ISBN 13: 9780007313105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368