Death’s Jest-Book: Book 18 (Dalziel & Pascoe) - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007313209 ISBN 13: 9780007313204

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-06-25 Pages: 688 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK In TL Beddoes play Deaths Jest-Book. the dead wont lie still in the grave and the living often wish they could And Reginald Hills novel is. much the same - except perhaps for a few more jests.The dead-pan joker. Franny Roote. is working on his dead friends unfinished biography of Beddoes. and with unfinished business between himself and DCI Pascoe to deal with as well Three times Pascoe. has been wrong about Roote. This time hes determined to leave no grave-stone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad. bad and dangerous to know. Meanwhile. Edgar Wield. Quixote-like. rides to the rescue of a child in danger. and finds hes got a rent-boy under his wing. In return. the boy tips him off about the heist of a pricesless treasure. and soon Wieldys torn betwee...

About this title

Product Description:

Reginald Hill’s best-selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: ‘Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world’ – Independent

Ex-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat. DS Edgar Wield, intervening in a suspected kidnapping, takes a vulnerable rentboy under his wing, one who is hiding an earth-shattering secret. And young DC Bowler is looking forward to a weekend away with his girlfriend – but her dreams are filled with a horror too terrifying to share.

Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel, lording it over his team, is famed for his omniscience. But even he is unable to foresee the disaster towards which they are all tumbling...

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

‘The finest male English contemporary crime writer’ Val McDermid

‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining’
Ian Rankin

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007313209
• ISBN 13: 9780007313204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688