Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe)

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This book is by far the best so far in this wonderful series. Hill's characters are so very real, that they seem to come right off the page. His portrayal of Dalziel in this one is right on the mark. Dalziel is at his very best here - sharp, to-the-point, and oh so clever! Beware if anyone thinks they can pull a fast one on him. He has a nose for stories and fabrications like no copper you'll ever meet! This book won a Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year when this was written in 1990, and it well deserved this honour. It is stunning, and the climax is something that will leave you gasping. And Hill portrays his opposites (Dalziel and Pascoe) each at their own opposite ends of the spectrum. They are a formidable team, and beware to any crooks that try to get away with something in their patch! I can't say enough good things about this book. It left me breathless, and I can't wait to continue on with the series.

This is one novel, I couldn't put down and finished in a little over a day. Hill has a great style. It was been sometime that I novel had me reaching for a dictionary to look up definitions. The Yorkshire dialect was just perfect.The characters are well drawn and the plot winds in on itself just enough. I am looking forward to reading other Reginald Hill novels.

First all, I will admit that this book moves a little slowly, especially compared to most mysteries written by American authors. However, what you get here that you don't get with 99% of American mysteries is complex, interesting characters, a great plot, plenty of humor, and a wonderfully literate style. I will definitely read more of this series. The ending of this book is particularly powerful and it stayed with me for a while after I had finished it; an affect few mysteries have ever had on me.

A wonderful combination of mystery and philosophy, Bones and Silence presents Yorkshire detective inspector Andrew Dalziel with the opportunity to play God. In the community production of the York mystery cycle, a religious play from medieval times, the gargantuan detective is cast as the Deity; in real life he is receiving anonymous notes from someone threatening suicide. He knows that the writer of the letters is an acquaintance of his-- but which one? Reginald Hill is an excellent prose stylist. He deserves as wide a readership and as much acclaim as P.D. James, with whom he is often compared. This novel was a finalist for the Edgar in 1990, when I chaired the Best Novel committee, and it won the Golden Dagger in England. Reginald Hill is an extraordinary writer.-- Sharyn McCrumb