<p>‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’<br />The Times</p>
<p>‘These novels last, like a grand malt whisky – rounded, rich, intoxicating… Here is an author at his formidable best’<br />Frances Hegarty, Mail on Sunday</p>
<p>‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’<br />Sunday Telegraph</p>

‘Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill’s best’ Financial Times When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant. Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums – it’s all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him. And meanwhile the Choker strikes again – and again…
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‘Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill’s best’ Financial Times
• Gold Dagger Award-winner Reginald Hill is one of our foremost crime writers, and was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award in 1996 • One of the second set of three backlist titles to be reissued in an exciting and stylish new package, following the hugely successful new cover approach used for On Beulah Height (paperback coming in March 1999) • A third series of the acclaimed BBC TV adaptations of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels scheduled for transmission in Spring and Autumn 1998.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007313075
Publisert
2009-06-25
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperCollins
Vekt
270 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Reginald Hill was brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as ‘the crime novel’s best hope’ and, twenty years on, he has more than fulfilled that promise.