A Cure For All Diseases
A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The new Dalziel and Pascoe novel to delight and thrill Reginald Hill fans.
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 in Death Comes for the Fat Man, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks’ care under a tender nurse.
Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and psychologist, who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. With much in common, the two soon find themselves in partnership when trouble comes to town.
Sandytown’s principal landowners have grandiose plans for the resort–none of which they can agree on. One of them has to go, and when one of them does, in spectacularly gruesome fashion, DCI Peter Pascoe is called in to investigate–with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcome support. But Pascoe finds dark forces at work in a place where medicine and holistic remedies are no match for the oldest cure of all . . .
Customer Reviews
A Cure for All Diseases
I love Hill's 'Dalziel and Pascoe' books!
He produces a good detective novel with a story that keeps you hooked, but it is his writing style that I really enjoy.
His characters are vivid and believable with a lovely thread of humour that has you laughing out loud. Having grown up in Yorkshire I appreciate the earthy comedy of the detectives, though I wonder if some of the dialect may be lost on a North American audience.
Hill is obviously amazingly intelligent and classically educated and uses language beautifully. I usually have to look up at least a word a chapter. Reminiscent of a funny P.D. James.