Death's Jest-Book

<p>Reginald Hill’s best-selling duo Dalziel and Pascoe return in this brilliant complex and ultimately moving crime novel: ‘Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English-speaking world’ – Independent</p> <p>Ex-convict and aspiring academic Franny Roote has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat. DS Edgar Wield intervening in a suspected kidnapping takes a vulnerable rentboy under his wing one who is hiding an earth-shattering secret. And young DC Bowler is looking forward to a weekend away with his girlfriend – but her dreams are filled with a horror too terrifying to share.</p> <p>Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel lording it over his team is famed for his omniscience. But even he is unable to foresee the disaster towards which they are all tumbling…</p>