Reginald Hill





Reginald Hill

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born
April 03, 1936 in West Hartlepool, County Durham, The United Kingdom

died
January 12, 2012

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Reginald Charles Hill is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

After National Service (1955-57) and studying English at St Catherine's College, Oxford University (1957-60) he worked as a teacher for many years, rising to Senior Lecturer at Doncaster College of Education. In 1980 he retired from salaried work in order to devote himself full-time to writing.

Hill is best known for his more than 20 novels featuring the Yorkshire detectives Andrew Dalziel, Peter Pascoe and Edgar Wield. He has also written more than 30 other novels, including five featuring Joe Sixsmith, a black machine operator turned private detective in a fictional Luton. No...more


Average rating: 3.89 · 11,923 ratings · 1,103 reviews · 88 distinct works
A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel ...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1974 — 15 editions
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Woodcutter
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On Beulah Height (Dalziel &...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 951 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Death Comes For The Fat Man...
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Bones And Silence (Dalziel ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions
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A Killing Kindness (Dalziel...
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Midnight Fugue (Dalziel and...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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Good Morning, Midnight (Dal...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Dialogues Of The Dead (Dalz...
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Death's Jest-Book (Dalziel ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
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More books by Reginald Hill…
A Clubbable Woman An Advancement Of Learning Ruling Passion An April Shroud A Pinch Of Snuff A Killing Kindness Deadheads
Dalziel & Pascoe (24 books)
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3.912985955627926 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 9,826 ratings
Blood Sympathy Born Guilty Killing The Lawyers Singing The Sadness The Roar Of The Butterflies
Joe Sixsmith (5 books)
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3.553349875930521 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 403 ratings
“So what to do? . . . She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.”
Reginald Hill

“then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”
Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height (Dalziel & Pascoe, #17)

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