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Title: Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill ISBN: 0-06-052805-2 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best psychological mystery writer's best mystery!
Comment: Reginald Hill does an awesome job of weaving together many multicolored threads in this book. Each plotline is beautifully spun out, each character believably inhabited, as always, but "Death's Jest-Book" raises to a new level the question of who-done-what that Hill has used to tantalize readers in previous books. Be sure to read "Dialogues of the Dead" before you open this, or you'll miss half its power. "Jest-Book" and "Dialogues" are probably the best detective stories I've read in 30 years.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing sequel of "Dialogues of the dead"
Comment: I am an avid Reginald Hill fan and have read all Daziel and Pascoe mysteries. What started my "obsession" was Dialogues of te Dead, which I thought was great. I then went back and read all the other D&P books, and even ordered the UK edition of Death's Jest Book, since it has been out since last September.
What a disappointment and waste of efforts and money. The plots are disconnected and some of the characters, which we have followed for several books now seem like completely different personalities.
I would definitely buy the next Hill D&P mystery, but this time wil wait for it to come in paper back, preferably in a used bookstore.
Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointed Fan
Comment: Anyone who is a fan of Reginald Hill, save your money. Anyone who hasn't yet read Hill's earlier Pascoe/Dalziel mysteries, start with one at least five years old, because the last three have been worse and worse. This book is turgid, uninvolving, and lacks nearly all the humor that made the earlier Hill novels so rewarding.
In this effort, Hill brings back the issue of the wrongly solved serial killings from Dialogues of the Dead, then lets off the hook not only the murderer but every character who didn't realize (as most readers would) the identity of the real murderer. Here, Hill brings in characters to drop them, barely developed, and devotes an agonizing amount of space to letters written to Pasco by his bete noire. There are deaths that mean little because the characters and circumstances have been so poorly developed. By the time characters die, the reader almost hopes for some natural disaster to take the entire town and put characters and reader out of the misery of this dull book. The small amount of humor in it seems recycled, half0heartedly, from earlier books. All the characters seem in need of vast amounts of anti-depressants. The new mystery, such as it is, brings little suspense, other than whether the reader will slog through to the unsatisfying end, or toss all 558 pages, most of which are agonizingly dull, at the nearest wall.
This book is not worth the hours of your life it takes to read it.
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Title: The Murder Room by P.D. JAMES ISBN: 1400041414 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Babes in the Wood: A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery by RUTH RENDELL ISBN: 140004930X Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Now May You Weep: A Novel by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0060525231 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Dialogues of the Dead by Reginald Hill ISBN: 0060528095 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Playing with Fire : A Novel of Suspense by Peter Robinson ISBN: 006019877X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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