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[tree_and_leaf]

Very sad to hear that Reginald Hill has died. Although I didn't talk about them much here, I absolutely loved Dalziel and Pascoe and the rest of the Mid-Yorks crew. Such good detective stories - gripping, well-written, with utterly believable characters, and the ability to explore very dark things without losing a sense of humour - which is, after all, one of the ways of coping with the darkness.

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[queen_ypolita]

My thoughts also. It's not that long ago that I caught up with the Dalziel & Pascoe series, and I did wonder if it was time to start thinking there wouldn't be any more, and how sad that would be. Well, now it's time, and I'm thinking of re-reading some of the earlier books in the series that I haven't read in a while, just to remind myself of how much I like variuos members of the Mid-Yorks crew, and how wide-ranging the books are with respect to social issues, crimes, and playing with styles and texts

[tree_and_leaf]

Although I believe that he'd more or less finished one that has not yet been published (he died of a brain tumour, poor man).