Reginald Hill

Author profile

born

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

died

January 12, 2012

gender

male

website

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/reghill/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

About this author

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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

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Books by Reginald Hill

Average rating: 3.89 · 11,923 ratings · 1,103 reviews · 88 distinct works

	A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1974 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Woodcutter 3.98 avg rating — 878 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	My rating:
	On Beulah Height (Dalziel & Pascoe, #17) 4.04 avg rating — 951 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Death Comes For The Fat Man (Dalziel & Pascoe, #22) 4.05 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Bones And Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11) 3.96 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 1990 — 11 editions	My rating:
	A Killing Kindness (Dalziel & Pascoe, #6) 4.01 avg rating — 497 ratings — 14 editions	My rating:
	Midnight Fugue (Dalziel and Pascoe, #24) 3.95 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Good Morning, Midnight (Dalziel & Pascoe, #21) 3.89 avg rating — 469 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Dialogues Of The Dead (Dalziel & Pascoe, #19) 3.95 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2002 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Death's Jest-Book (Dalziel & Pascoe, #20) 3.96 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Series by Reginald Hill

Dalziel & Pascoe (24 books)
by Reginald Hill

3.91 avg rating — 9,826 ratings

Joe Sixsmith (5 books)
by Reginald Hill

3.55 avg rating — 403 ratings

Quotes by Reginald Hill

“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

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“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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