Rudolf Steiner, Author, Reginald Hill, Author Severn House Publishers $26 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4993-9
Originally published in England in 1973 as The Heartclock, by Dick Morland, this speculative novel is an early departure from the Dalziel and Pascoe crime novels for which Hill (The Wood Beyond) has become well known. In a country wracked by...
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Reginald Hill, Author Foul Play Press $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-88150-076-9
Hill, author of the popular British series featuring detectives Dalziel and Pascoe, has written a first-rate espionage thriller. Lemuel Swift, sixth Viscount Bessacarr, living in Venezuela as a fugitive from British justice, is told he has terminal...
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Reginald Hill, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-24238-1
Hill could not have created a protagonist more different from his gruff, hard-drinking, profane Andy Dalziel than Joe Sixsmith, the hero of his second series of mysteries (Killing the Lawyers, etc.). A PI without the large body and presence of...
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Reginald Hill, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-16877-3
All kinds of minor pleasures conspire in this third in the Joe Sixsmith series (Blood Sympathy; Born Guilty). Joe's a black PI in the not especially famous English town of Luton. He solves crimes less by detection than by his own brand of scrupulous
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Reginald Hill, Author St. Martin's Press $65 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-13032-9
In Pictures of Perfection, 1994's Dalziel/Pascoe mystery, Hill conjured up a nearly faultless puzzle with virtually no crime and no dead folks. Less successful is this, the second in his series starring laconic, balding, middle-aged Joe Sixsmith, a...
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Reginald Hill, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-11249-3
Hill's newest detective is Joe Sixsmith, a fat, black, balding lathe operator declared redundant in Thatcherite England. Middle-aged, likable Joe has set himself up as a PI in Luton, Bedfordshire, although all he knows about the profession is what...
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Reginald Hill, Author Delacorte Press $20 (359p) ISBN 978-0-385-30131-2
A 1963 murder in Great Britain involving ``a royal, a cabinet minister and an American diplomat'' has repercussions decades later for Det. Supt. Andrew Dalziel and Inspector Peter Pascoe in this dynamic, surprising mystery, their 11th escapade....
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Reginald Hill, Author Delacorte Press $17.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-30130-5
If further evidence were needed, this latest mystery confirms Hill's place among top British writers who produce solid stories of detection that succeed as first-rate novels exploring human character. Set in a cathedral city which will host a...
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Reginald Hill, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $13.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-02-551590-1
The 10th in Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe novels ( Exit Lines, etc.) is, as usual, a nicely plotted, smoothly written mystery on the top rung of the genre. A half-dotty old Yorkshire widow dies, throwing her relations into confusion with a will that...
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Reginald Hill, Author Signet Book $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-14252-8
Three old men die violently in separate incidents one stormy November night. Because one of them is run over by Andy Dalziel, he comes under suspicion, and it is up to his partner, Peter Pascoe, and Sergeant Wield to investigate and clear his name....
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Reginald Hill, Author Foul Play Press $15.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-88150-065-3
Fans of Hill's procedurals featuring Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe may be startled at encountering Dalziel out of character. In the first U.S. publication of a 1975 work, Dalziel is mainly on his own, during Pascoe's honeymoon, and is,
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Reginald Hill, Author Countryman Press $19.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-88150-138-4
First published in England in 1987, this novel departs from Hill's usual mystery oeuvre ( Ruling Passion ). With thoughtfulness and insight that call to mind le Carre, Hill reconsiders an aspect of the German occupation of France during WW II that...
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Reginald Hill, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-57670-7
""These lads here are on the run from the Army, it doesn't matter which Army, there's only one sodding huge Army in the whole world.'' The speaker is Australian Arthur Viney, leader of a multinational pack of WW I deserters who occupy a tract of...
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Reginald Hill, Author . Delacorte $23.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-33600-0
Known for complex plotting, deep characterization and sly humor, Hill here adds to his string of brilliant psychological thrillers featuring two of Britain's most well-rounded detectives. Supt. Andy Dalziel (aka the Fat Man) is the ultimate ham...
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Reginald Hill, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-33279-8
Few mystery authors know better than the prolific Hill (Singing the Sadness, Forecasts, Aug. 23) how to keep the delicate engine of a high-quality series running. After successfully mining the past for his last two books about Yorkshire coppers Andy
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Reginald Hill, Author Delacorte Press $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-33278-1
Cascading imagery and sinuous plot lines are utilized to stunning effect in Hill's latest Dalziel/Pascoe novel (The Wood Beyond, 1996, etc.), a flawless blend of mystery, ghost story and psychological thriller. Fifteen years ago, the remote...
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Reginald Hill, Author Foul Play Press $21 (272p) ISBN 978-0-88150-382-1
The young and cultured Peter Pascoe and the rotund, gruff Andy Dalziel have been paired to memorable effect in several outstanding crime novels (most recently, Beyond the Wood). Now, Hill's loyal readers are presented with four novellas that, in...
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Reginald Hill, Author Foul Play Press $16.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-88150-119-3
With gleeful malice aforethought, Hill explodes the genre of the short murder tale and diverts it to his own wicked, original ends. These six stories by the creator of mysteries featuring Detective Dalziel and Sergeant Pascoe ( An Advancement of...
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Reginald Hill, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-20935-5
While one of a police duo follows up on a cache of suicidal letters, his partner is cast as God opposite a murder suspect playing Lucifer in a contemporized medieval mystery play. According to PW , this mystery ``confirms Hill's place among top...
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Reginald Hill, Author . Harper $25.99 (362p) ISBN 978-0-06-145196-6
The short time frame of British author Hill's strong 24th Dalziel and Pascoe procedural (after 2008's The Price of Butcher's Meat
) maximizes suspense without sacrificing either characterization or humor. Andy Dalziel, an irascible...
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Reginald Hill, Author . Harper $25.95 (519p) ISBN 978-0-06-145193-5
In Hill's solid 23rd Dalziel and Pascoe procedural set in Yorkshire, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel doesn't see much of his longtime colleague, DCI Peter Pascoe, because Dalziel is recovering from the serious injuries he suffered in Death Comes...
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Reginald Hill, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-06-082082-4
Hill, who has created and artfully guided the destinies of Yorkshire policemen Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel (aka "the Fat Man") and his DCI Peter Pascoe through 22 remarkable adventures, doesn't give anything away until the very last page of...
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Reginald Hill, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-06-082081-7
Fans of the witty Dalziel/Pascoe police procedurals (Good Morning, Midnight
, etc.) by Diamond Dagger–winner Hill may be nonplussed by this stand-alone, a mix of historical mystery, gothic romance, ghost story and tutorial on religion and...
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Reginald Hill, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-06-052807-2
One part traditional English whodunit and one part shadowy corporate thriller, Diamond Dagger winner Hill's 21st Dalziel/Pascoe mystery (after 2003's Death's Jest-Book
) weaves a complex and deeply satisfying tale. Pal Mciver is found...
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Reginald Hill, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-052805-8
Diamond Dagger winner Hill ties up some loose ends from his previous Dalziel/Pascoe book, Dialogues of the Dead (2002), in this gritty, witty psychological suspense novel, whose title evokes a work by 19th-century poet and dramatist Thomas Lovell...
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Reginald Hill, Author, Ros Hill, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-18931-4
The British author's faultless writing, ironic wit andabove allrecognizably human characters defy limiting his police stories to the mystery category. In the 10th novel featuring mild Detective Pascoe and his chief, Superintendent Detective Dalziel,
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Reginald Hill, Author, Patrick Ruell, Author Foul Play Press $15.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-88150-102-5
Eminent British author Reginald Hill, writing as Patrick Ruell, tells a feverishly suspenseful story here. A political assassin identified only by the terse surname Jaysmith, is sent to England's Lake District, where he misses his target, Steven...
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