'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times
When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway.
If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.
Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums - it's all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him.
And meanwhile the Choker strikes again - and again…
| ISBN: | 9780007313075 |
| Publication date: | 25th June 2009 |
| Author: | Reginald Hill |
| Publisher: | HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Dalziel and Pascoe Novels |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Crime and mystery: police procedural Thriller and Suspense |