Death's Jest-Book

Zusatztext “This is a book with an underlying tone of menace throughout....enriched by irony and imagery! a brilliant bit of writing.” Informationen zum Autor Reginald Hill, acclaimed English crime writer, was a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe. Their appearances won Hill numerous awards, including a CWA Golden Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe stories were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series. Hill died in 2012. Klappentext Sometimes a monster can hide behind a maskof civilized, urbane intelligence. Sometimes the most terrible of crimes can go undetected and unpunished. Sometimes Death has a wicked sense of humor ... Zusammenfassung Bestselling and Diamond Dagger award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets up a battle of wills between determined cops Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe and an  elusive and ingenious villain in a “dazzling” novel of psychological suspense ( New York Times Book Review ). Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime! only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he’s determined to get his man. Meanwhile! Pascoe’s colleague Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a boy in danger and in return! the boy tips him off about the heist of a priceless treasure. Soon Wield is torn between protecting the lad and doing his duty. Over all this activity broods the huge form of Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds! Dalziel discovers that omniscience can be more trouble than it’s worth.

Product details

• Authors: Reginald Hill
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780060528065
• ISBN: 978-0-06-052806-5
• No. of pages: 545
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 172 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Series: Dalziel &Pascoe
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Military, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Thrillers / Technological