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A Killing Kindness

by Reginald Hill · 1980

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'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!

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British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thispolice proceduralpolice proceduralMore like thisLess of this
Themes
murdermurderMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisYorkshireYorkshireMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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