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Reginald Hill

Audiobook Appreciation

January 11, 2010 Books and Reading

I’m done with this most recent clump of deadlines! I don’t think I’ve worked at quite a pace like this for a long while – it’s been three to four weeks of fourteen hour days. I am very, very thankful for my audiobooks – I think they kept me sane in the midst of all [...]

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Review: Ruling Passion, by Reginald Hill

May 5, 2009 Books and Reading

In Ruling Passion, by Reginald Hill, Pascoe and his girlfriend Ellie arrive in Thornton Lacey to spend a weekend with old friends from their student days. They find instead three of their friends dead of shotgun wounds, and a fourth friend at large, sought by the local police as a suspect in the killings. Meanwhile, [...]

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Still Reading …

April 8, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s been quite a whirlwind around the MsBookish household – we seem to have plunged right into spring cleaning/home renovations fever, and if that sounds chaotic … it is!
But I’m still reading. I think it’s the only way to stay sane during a renovation. The main problem is that I don’t have much time for [...]

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Book Review: A Cure for All Diseases (The Price of Butcher’s Meat), by Reginald Hill

February 26, 2009 Books and Reading

From the back of the book:

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 [...]

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Library Loot: Mostly Mysteries – and BBC Audio

February 4, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s time for Library Loot, where book bloggers share what they brought home from the library this past week.
I love going to the library, although these days, because I’ve been very efficiently using the library’s request holds system, I normally just pop in, grab my on hold books off the hold shelf, take a quick [...]

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