BLOOD SYMPATHY: Book 1 (Joe Sixsmith) - Softcover

Hill, Reginald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007334869 ISBN 13: 9780007334865

Publisher: HarperFiction, 2010

Synopsis

‘Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction’ Observer

PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-aged lathe operator from a high rise in Luton? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can.

His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire him, and Joe’s current clients certainly fit the bill. One’s confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she’s a witch. Next to them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal.

As Joe stumbles his way through bodies, gangsters and hostile police officers, he is protected by a combination of sheer luck and the help of a new lady friend. And soon it seems like he might just surpass everyone’s expectations...

About this title

Review:

‘Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery’
Sunday Telegraph

‘A thoroughly engaging investigator’
TLS

‘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’
Ian Rankin

‘The best crime novel of the year’
Natasha Cooper, The Times (of On Beulah Height)

From the Back Cover:

PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton, Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire him, and Joe’s current clients certainly fit the bill. One seems to be confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she’s a witch. Alongside them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal.

In the past Reginald Hill has brought wit, style and compassion to police investigation. Now he does the same for the private sector, and – in perhaps his greatest feat of creation – reinvents Luton in the process.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFiction
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0007334869
• ISBN 13: 9780007334865
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224