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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost Great Book, Feb 28 2003

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This review is from: Dialogues of the Dead (Hardcover)

Mysteries are mysteries except when written by Hill. His novels are wonderfully written works of fiction that use the murder mystery genre merely as the tread. It is the "getting there" that he masters so well.

It was great to see the characters from his previous book, 'Death's Jest-Book' show up again in this novel - part two of the story... but 'Death's Jest-Book' is the one to own.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent and gripping, Sep 17 2002

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This review is from: Dialogues of the Dead (Hardcover)

This is one of the best mysteries I've read recently, as a mystery and also as masterful piece of fiction writing. Hill is a genious of characterization, and the plot is both clever and unsettling. I could carp about the ending, which will surprise (and may dismay) you, but I have to admit it has really stuck with me and was not an easy, conventional solution.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, May 7 2009

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This review is from: Dialogues of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book for Christmas for my husband as we are both fans of British mysteries. How we missed this author in all our years of reading authors likes Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin and Colin Dexter I have no idea, because Hill is an absolute pleasure. His plots flow smoothly but it is the characters of Dalziel and Pascoe that he has developed over some 30 years of writing that are the real gems. I have to admit after reading this novel I went back to his first "A Clubbable Woman" and read them through by publication date and am really sad that I have now read them all and will have to wait for the next one.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, powerful crime fiction
Words like unique, creative, compelling, imaginative, althought highly relevant, do not do justice to this masterpiece. Read more

Published on July 10 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare pleasure
I will not give a summary of the plot or teh characters--otehrs have done it, besides it is hard to do that without giving spoilers. Read more

Published on May 20 2002 by Emilia Palaveeva