Asking for the Moon: A Collection of Dalziel and Pascoe Stories

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Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
If youve already met Dalziel and Pascoe, youre in for a treat. If you havent yet had the pleasure, youre in for a revelation! Here in four stories we track their partnership from curtain-up to last act; from the mean streets of Mid-Yorkshire to the mountains of the moon.

The Last National Service Man reveals the truth, hitherto buried in police files, of their momentous first encounter, while Pascoes Ghost is a chilling tale taking us deep into Poe country. Dalziels Ghost, meanwhile, finds the man who normally wouldnt be seen dead in a graveyard expressing a surprising interest in the other side. And finally, One Small Step takes a giant leap forward to the first murder on the moon.

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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

The fertility of Hills imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight Val McDermid, Sunday Express

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

Reginald Hills novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

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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.