Friday, January 13, 2012

Reginald Hill, R. I. P.

guardian.co.uk: The writer Reginald Hill, who created the Yorkshire detective duo Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, has died aged 75.

Hill charted the ups and downs of his two contrasting sleuths in more than 20 novels published over four decades after his debut, A Clubbable Woman (1970) alongside a substantial body of other crime fiction and thrillers. He won the Crime Writers Association's Golden Dagger in 1990 for Bones and Silence, and the Diamond Dagger for the series as a whole in 1995.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bummer. That's a shock. I love his books, though I've fallen a number of books behind.

Jeff

Anonymous said...

So sorry to see this. I've been reading his books nonstop since Joe Barone's review of "A Pinch of Snuff."
Michel

Martin Edwards said...

This really is sad, because he was not only a terrific writer, but a terrific man.

bettiek said...

I am so sorry to hear this. He will be missed.

Aubrey Hamilton said...

Oh no! I loved his books!

Nancy said...

I'm very sorry. What a wonderful writer he was.

Deb said...

Dalziel is one of literature's great creations. I'm so sorry to hear about Hill's passing.