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    A Killing Kindness

    Written by Reginald Hill

    Narrated by Colin Buchanan

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    Hill is on top form in this sixth story in the Dalziel and Pascoe series

    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…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2011
    ISBN9780007460946
    Author

    Reginald Hill

    Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Dalziel and DCI Pascoe, ‘the best detective duo on the scene bar none’ (‘Daily Telegraph’). Their appearances have won him numerous awards including a CWA Gold Dagger and Lifetime Achievement award. They have also been adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series.

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    • 3/5
      This is the only one I have read out of the whole series. I thought the characterization of the main police officers was well done, but there were so many characters, and I even kept getting the murdered women muddled up in my mind. The plot only really worked because the murderer spent pages explaining how and why he had done what he had done.
    • 4/5
      Usual convoluted plot and literary referenecs but Dalziel's dialogue always a pleasure to read!
    • 3/5
      Usual fun interaction between Pascoe and the Fat Man. Wield has trouble in personal life. Gypsies play an interesting role.