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Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And while Death may be the cure for all diseases Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks' care under a tender nurse.
Convalescing in Sandytown a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood a fellow newcomer and psychologist who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. With much in common the two soon find themselves in league when trouble comes to town.
Sandytown's principal landowners have grandiose plans for the resort - none of which they can agree on. One of them has to go and when one of them does in spectacularly gruesome fashion DCI Peter Pascoe is called in to investigate - with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcome support. But Pascoe finds dark forces at work in a place where medicine and holistic remedies are no match for the oldest cure of all...
Special Online Price Only Unfortunately this item is either out of print or no longer available from our regular suppliers, we can no longer obtain stock of this item, and have sold out of stock in our stores. You may be interested in our similar titles below. | ISBN 13: | 9780007260263 |
| ISBN 10: | 0007260261 |
| Binding: | Audio |
| Dimensions: | 142 x 125 mm |
| Released: | 01/05/2008 |
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Reginald Charles Hill (born 3 April 1936, West Hartlepool, County Durham) is a contemporary English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.
Hill's novels employ various structural devices, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (n e Soper). Clues may also be provided in such a way that readers sail past them, only realising at the end how their own assumptions have been exposed. He also frequently selects one writer or one oeuvre to use as a central organizing element of a given novel, such as one novel being a pastiche of Jane Austen's works, or another featuring elements of classical Greek myth. In a different kind of tease, the novella One Small Step (dedicated to "you, dear readers, without whom the writing would be in vain, and to you, still dearer purchasers, without whom the eating would be infrequent",) is set in the future, and deals with the EuroFed Police Commissioner Pascoe and retired Dalziel investigating the first murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that while Dalziel and Pascoe are unable to convict anyone, a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one unprovable instance of murder.
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