false 2370119 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg — The New York Times Book Review

Acclaimed as “the master of form and the sorcerer of style,”* the Grand Master of British psychological suspense returns to weave wordplay and murder into a lethal tapestry that only Dalziel and Pascoe can unravel.

With characteristic precision,insidious wit, and unparalleled insight into the serpentine criminal mind, Hill offers readers his most diabolical surprise to date.

Dialogues of the Dead

Paronomania [n. A clinical obsession with word games]

In the Beginning was the Word...

And the Word was Murder.

A motorist dies after plunging off a bridge.... A motorcyclist is found dead after a fatal encounter with a tree. Two apparently innocuous tragedies ... until two Dialogues are submitted to a local literary competition, claiming responsibility for the deaths. But has anybody heard the Word?

When a beautiful, unscrupulous journalist meets her Maker in fact, and then in fiction, as victim of The Third Dialogue, Dalziel and Pascoe take note and find themselves involved in a deadly duel of wits against an opponent known only as the Wordman: a brilliant sociopath who leaves literary clues in his wake ... and who hides in plain sight.
Contestants, are you ready?

Reginald Hill’s books consistently combine wordplay and sleuthing, but the Master is in superb form in Dialogues of the Dead. There are enough clues to make a patchwork quilt, but in this test of wills just who is playing against whom?

Is it the Wordman versus the police? Or the killer against his victims? Or is the real game between you, dear reader, and Reginald Hill himself, at his most intriguing, most enticing, most elusive best? Just when you think you have your killer, guess again. Someone may have conceived the perfect crime.

Let the games begin...]]> 77182 13 1238691 2001 Dialogues of the Dead total:162|5:46|4:67|3:40|2:7|1:2| 162 634 208 14 8069 3.79 3452 378 38505952 672177 1249947 0006512887 9780006512882 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259676m/1249947.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259676s/1249947.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1249947.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 3.90 10
A diabolically clever plot full of puns, cryptic riddles and word play that tests the mettle of Dalziel and Pascoe.

A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two seemingly random accidents, yet, in a pair of so-called dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette, apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility.

At the Mid-Yorkshire CID, however, no one seems to take the deaths seriously, not even young DC Hat Bowler. But when the story is leaked to the media, and a third indisputable murder occurs, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a deadly game against an opponent known as the Wordman.

Gradually, the hunt focuses on three main suspects. Yet Dialogue follows Dialogue and funeral follows funeral until Hat
Bowler begins to fear that the next murder may strike very close to home...]]> 2001 4 2 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 21:56:24 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 22:02:31 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 37703748 1711431 77182 0060528095 9780060528096 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965m/77182.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965s/77182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77182.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 3.92 143 Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the local police department is slow to act -- until the arrival of a third Dialogue ... and another corpse. A darkness is settling over a terrorized community, brought on by a genius fiend who hides clues to his horrific acts in complex riddles and brilliant wordplay. Now two seasoned CID investigators, Peter Pascoe and "Fat Andy" Dalziel, are racing against a clock whose every tick signals more blood and outrage, caught in the twisted game of a diabolical killer who is turning their jurisdiction into a slaughterhouse.

]]> 2001 4 0 false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Nov 14 06:27:08 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 06:27:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 70384362 1204262 77182 0060528095 9780060528096 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965m/77182.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965s/77182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77182.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 3.91 162 Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the local police department is slow to act -- until the arrival of a third Dialogue ... and another corpse. A darkness is settling over a terrorized community, brought on by a genius fiend who hides clues to his horrific acts in complex riddles and brilliant wordplay. Now two seasoned CID investigators, Peter Pascoe and "Fat Andy" Dalziel, are racing against a clock whose every tick signals more blood and outrage, caught in the twisted game of a diabolical killer who is turning their jurisdiction into a slaughterhouse.

]]> 2001 3 0 false Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:44:51 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 13:51:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 77412788 2501667 1249947 0006512887 9780006512882 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259676m/1249947.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259676s/1249947.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1249947.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 3.91 162
A diabolically clever plot full of puns, cryptic riddles and word play that tests the mettle of Dalziel and Pascoe.

A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two seemingly random accidents, yet, in a pair of so-called dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette, apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility.

At the Mid-Yorkshire CID, however, no one seems to take the deaths seriously, not even young DC Hat Bowler. But when the story is leaked to the media, and a third indisputable murder occurs, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a deadly game against an opponent known as the Wordman.

Gradually, the hunt focuses on three main suspects. Yet Dialogue follows Dialogue and funeral follows funeral until Hat
Bowler begins to fear that the next murder may strike very close to home...]]> 2001 4 0 false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 02:28:09 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 02:33:13 -0800 2009 76162972 1196779 4604402 0770428924 9780770428921 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4604402.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 1.00 1 Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the local police department is slow to act -- until the arrival of a third Dialogue ... and another corpse. A darkness is settling over a terrorized community, brought on by a genius fiend who hides clues to his horrific acts in complex riddles and brilliant wordplay. Now two seasoned CID investigators, Peter Pascoe and "Fat Andy" Dalziel, are racing against a clock whose every tick signals more blood and outrage, caught in the twisted game of a diabolical killer who is turning their jurisdiction into a slaughterhouse.

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A diabolically clever plot full of puns, cryptic riddles and word play that tests the mettle of Dalziel and Pascoe.

A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two seemingly random accidents, yet, in a pair of so-called dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette, apparently as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be claiming responsibility.

At the Mid-Yorkshire CID, however, no one seems to take the deaths seriously, not even young DC Hat Bowler. But when the story is leaked to the media, and a third indisputable murder occurs, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a deadly game against an opponent known as the Wordman.

Gradually, the hunt focuses on three main suspects. Yet Dialogue follows Dialogue and funeral follows funeral until Hat
Bowler begins to fear that the next murder may strike very close to home...]]> 2001 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Apr 03 01:59:36 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 04:36:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 50854165 1658778 77182 0060528095 9780060528096 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965m/77182.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170899965s/77182.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77182.Dialogues_of_the_Dead 3.91 162 Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality -- had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact in a pair of macabre "Dialogues" submitted to a Yorkshire short story competition. Yet the local police department is slow to act -- until the arrival of a third Dialogue ... and another corpse. A darkness is settling over a terrorized community, brought on by a genius fiend who hides clues to his horrific acts in complex riddles and brilliant wordplay. Now two seasoned CID investigators, Peter Pascoe and "Fat Andy" Dalziel, are racing against a clock whose every tick signals more blood and outrage, caught in the twisted game of a diabolical killer who is turning their jurisdiction into a slaughterhouse.

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