A Candle for Christmas & Other Stories

(Hardback)

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A fantastic mystery short story collection, the perfect Christmas gift for crime fiction lovers
A beloved detective dies in a fire
Sherlock Holmes takes a trip to Italy
A disastrous case of mistaken identity

From his well-loved detective duo, DCI Dalziel and DI Pascoe to his own reimagining of Sherlock Holmes, Reginald Hills unforgettable characters and unique blend of humour and suspense make him one of Britains greatest crime writers. Complete with a foreword by Mick Herron, this collection of short stories showcases the very best of this iconic mystery writer.

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Praise for Reginald Hill

Fast paced and packed with the Yorkshire duos trademark humour
Daily Mirror
These stories will make a perfect Christmas present for mystery fiction aficionados
Guardian
'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction'
Observer
'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace'
Donna Leon, Sunday Times
'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories intertwining'
Ian Rankin

Author Bio

Reginald Hill was brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as the crime novels best hope and thirty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.