Good-bye, Reginald Hill :-(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

"On the publication of the 21st Dalziel and Pascoe novel in 2007, an interviewer asked Reginald Hill if this was his 48th published novel to date. Hill replied: "That sounds very reasonable. I counted religiously till I got to 10, then in a more secular fashion till I got to 20, and after that I lost interest in keeping a tally. I mean, if 20 doesn't mean you're a real writer, then what number does?" Such a self-effacing reply was typical of the modest and softly spoken Hill, who has died aged 75 after suffering from a brain tumour. One of Britain's most consistently successful crime writers, he could easily have been mistaken for an absent-minded academic or a country parson."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/13/reginald-hill

It's sad to think that there will be no more Dalziel and Pascoe books.

[Little Star]

1. RIP Reginald Charles Hill.

[fadedrose]

2. The thing about his books

is that as long as Lydia Leftcoast lives, Reginald Hill lives.

Never read him, but if he's as good as you say, will give him a look. At my library they have the first, A Clubbable Woman(1970) so I may give it a try.

Saw a post from you somewhere, can't remember where or when, but in it you said that the bible (such as it is) was written in Greek. I read Barbara Thiering's Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls and she said the same thing, and that the only true meaning of the gospels is attainable only thru the Greek version. Quite a book she wrote, totally amazing. She's an aged professor at the U of Austrialia, if she's still alive, and it caused an uproar.

[fadedrose]

3. Just picked up one of his books because of your post..

The Clubbable Woman, but it'll be more than a week before I start it. Been busy with Colin Cotterill, a new one for me, and I like him a lot....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Yes, Colin Cotterill is a great practitioner of one of my favorite mystery genres:

Mysteries set in a little-known foreign country, in this case, Laos.

If you like Cotterill, I suggest James Church's North Korean mysteries or Zoe Ferraris's Saudi Arabian mysteries.

I'm also a big fan of Arnaldur Indridason's Icelandic mysteries.

[fadedrose]

5. These mysteries in foreign countries really grow on you...

What surprises me is that there is humor and a kind of logic in all countries and in spite of our differences, we seem to think the same - even in countries where they are under the control of another country. The human spirit survives...