An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 2)

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All is not well at Holm Coultram College.
All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.

Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesnt feel murder fits in here let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, thats exactly what they find

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'He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' Andrew Taylor, Independent

'The finest male English contemporary crime writer. Compassionate, intelligent and entertaining'
Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

'He just keeps getting better and better Hill, a true master, never fails to shock and surprise'
Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

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.