REVIEW: ‘A Cure for All Diseases’ by Reginald Hill

This story brings together two of my favourite kinds of book: crime fiction and anything Jane Austen related. Now that doesn’t mean you need to be an Austen fan to enjoy this 23rd outing in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, but it means there’s a treat threaded throughout the story if you are. What’s it […]

February 8, 2022 Book Reviews, Crime, Fiction Read More →

‘Dialogues of the Dead’: wordplay and conversation…with a side serving of crime

Recently my reading group tried some books by Reginald Hill. I didn’t think the book I read was especially gripping or well-written but I knew that in 1995 Hill had won the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and thought I should give the author another try. I decided to read one […]

January 20, 2013 Book Reviews, Crime, Fiction Read More →