Blood Sympathy (Joe Sixsmith, Book 1)

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Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction Observer
PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-aged lathe operator from a high rise in Luton Joe Sixsmith thinks it can.

His Aunt Mirabelle thinks youd have to be crazy to hire him, and Joes current clients certainly fit the bill. Ones confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks shes a witch. Next to them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal.

As Joe stumbles his way through bodies, gangsters and hostile police officers, he is protected by a combination of sheer luck and the help of a new lady friend. And soon it seems like he might just surpass everyones expectations

Reviews

Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery
Sunday Telegraph

A thoroughly engaging investigator
TLS

Few writers in the genre today have Hills gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace
Donna Leon, Sunday Times

Reginald Hills novels are really dances to the music of time
Ian Rankin

The best crime novel of the year
Natasha Cooper, The Times (of On Beulah Height)

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.