About this title: A bomb couldn't kill Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel, but his convalescence at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown just might. After a macabre murder calls Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe onto the scene, Fat Andy realizes that Avalon itself is no sanctuary from the lethal secrets of the local elite.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780061451942ISBN:0061451940
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Book Fine & D/J VG with just the faintest of edgewear. A lovely book with pristine text and no names, writing, marks, etc. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 519 p. Audience: General/trade. The author has received many awards for his Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries, of which this book is one. Set in a coastal Yorkshire town. An excellent read. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
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Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover
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Date Published: 2008.
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
Description: Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 519 pages. A fine, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2008-11-01
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
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Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780061451935ISBN:0061451932
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"Most mystery series eventually get boring. The only exceptions I've found are Elizabeth George's and Reginald Hill's. I don't think Butcher's Meat is as strong as his previous book, but it's still miles ahead of most. The email/recorded voice conceit was annoying me until I realized the book is a version of Sanditon. So it's a modern epistolary novel. But the misspellings and dashes of Charley's emails were wearing, and getting such big chunks of Dalziel's voice just pointed out how unlikely it is that he would have such turns of phrases at hand when engaged in unrehearsed speech. Thankfully, sections of the book are written in your basic omniscient narrator style. It was a successful re-telling (and finishing) of an older style of story, it had Hill's characteristic humor, character nuance, and energy, but I'm looking forward to his next novel being 100% his own.
Sidenote--I recently re-read An Advancement of Learning, where we first meet Franny Root, and he seemed so creepy and sociopathic. It was interesting to see how he is handled in the current novel--specifically stating that he has sociopathic tendencies but is not disconnected from human society or morals. Still a twisty little bugger, but more believable as portrayed by this vastly more experienced writer."
"This was not my favorite book by Hill, but I still enjoyed it. But it is not for the novice Hill reader -- he employs his internal narrators in the form of a young woman (Charlie) writing emails to her sister, complete with spelling errors, total lack of apostrophes, and comments like "well, you know me!!!" and Dalziel's description of the same events, in his own idiom, into a little audio recorder given to him by the doctor at a convalescent home, where he recovers after awakening from a coma.
The first 100 or so pages of the book alternate between these two narrators, so if you can't stand that kind of thing (or if you can't stand chatty emails with no apostrophes) it's probably better to skip this one, but if you can handle it the book is worth it, particularly for the insight into Dalziel and his relationship with Pascoe from his own perspective, and Charlie's observations. I had the strong feeling that Charlie may make another appearance in the future, but you never know."
"Reginald Hill is one of my all time favorite mystery authors; he ranks right up there with Dorothy L. Sayers in my book. This entry in the Dalziel-Pascoe series is a bit different in that he uses a character's emails and tape recordings of Andy Dalziel's to tell the story. The tape recordings from Dalziel's point of view are hilarious and must have been a lot of fun to write. The story is complex, the characters well drawn and there is a character from previous books who makes a reappearance in a rather creepy way. A new one just came out and I can't wait to get it..... Oh, through the introduction to this you learn that Hill is a "Janeite", i.e. a Jane Austen devotee, so it is fun to see the parallels in this novel to her unfinished novel "Sanditon"....."
"Every time I finish a Reginald Hill mystery, I think, "Okay, there's no way he can top that one." And every time I'm happily wrong! While Andy Dalziel recovers from his injuries in a seaside convalescent home, the town's complicated relationships - and enmities - are explored by a young female visitor to the area, until a gruesome murder brings Peter Pascoe to investigate."
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