poliphilo: (corinium)
poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2014-06-08 03:25 pm

Dialogues Of The Dead: Reginald Hill

Henning Mankell it ain't.

Wordplay, erudition, frivolity. And the ending is outrageously cheeky.

There are over 20 more in the series .'Appen I'll pick up another...
sovay: (Claude Rains)

[personal profile] sovay 2014-06-08 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
There are over 20 more in the series .'Appen I'll pick up another...

I started with Pictures of Perfection. It turned out not to be very representative of the series, but it gave me a romantic pairing I could root for, and those are rare in fiction.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-06-08 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I get the impression he liked to mess about with his readers' expectations. I understand there's a book in the series that's set in "the future" on the Moon.