Just finished the latest Dalzeil and Pascoe novel by Reginald Hill. This is his best since Death’s Jest Book. No political undertones, just a relatively straight forward whodunit.
The fun thing about reading a series of books is that it is like visiting a group of old friends. A cure for all seasons is not for casual readers of the series. You would need to have read An Advancement of Learning, Dialogues of the Dead, Deaths Jest Book and The Death of Dalzeil to understand some the relationships between the characters, and if your going to read those, you may as well go through the entire ouevre.
There is nothing like reading a good book for the first time, where the twists come as a surprise. I read this pretty much over a weekend.
My only problem is that now it could be some time before a new book is released.
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Haven't had that with a book for a while. Incidentally, have you read any of Tom Holt's stuff? Apart from teh Portable Door books, Ifind it hard to care about the characters at all.
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