Blood Sympathy

Blood Sympathy

by ReginaldHill (Author)

Synopsis

'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-agd redundant lathe operator from a high rise in Luton, Beds? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you'd have to be crazy to hire him, and Joe's current clients certainly fit the bill. One seems to be confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she's a witch. Alongside them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal. In the past Reginald Hill has brought wit, style and compassion to police investigation. Now he does the same for the private sector, and -- in perhaps his greatest feat of creation -- reinvents Luton in the process.

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More Information

Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Re-issue
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 06 Sep 1999

ISBN 10: 0586218513
ISBN 13: 9780586218518

Media Reviews
'Splendid moments in this entertaining mystery' Sunday Telegraph 'A thoroughly engaging investigator' TLS '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' 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 novel's best hope' and twenty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.