“Hill writes with an intelligence and wit that make him, in my opinion, possibly the best crime writer of our day.” — Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
“Reginald Hill turns the genre on its ear in Good Morning, Midnight ....well worth the price of admission.” — Denver Rocky Mountain News
“Hill’s sleuths, Dalziel and Pascoe, never fail to entertain.” — Charlotte Observer
“A dazzler--Hill’s best in years.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining.” — Ian Rankin
“A real treat. The characters are deftly drawn, the plot constantly delivers surprises and the assured narrative demonstrates again what a terrific comic writer [Hill] is.” — The Observer (UK)
“No one writes a more civilized British police procedural than Reginald Hill. His intricately constructed plots are studded with challenging puzzle components like coded messages and locked-room crime scenes.” — New York Times Book Review
“Literate without being pedantic, humorous without undercutting suspense, Hill’s book will keep you reading far beyond the midnight hour.” — Sunday Express (London)
“Wickedly clever.” — Booklist
“Hill is in splendid form here, his plot masterful, his scenario up-to-the-minute regarding world events, and his writing suspenseful, stylish, literary...and even philosophical. Topnotch crime fiction from a master.” — Library Journal
“Hill’s writing seems to only get sharper and punchier.” — San Antonio Express-News
“Absorbing...enjoyable....The writing is brilliant, witty and erudite...the sharply etched characters are memorably individual.” — Evening Standard (UK)
“Hill has provided readers with a superior example of the mystery form -- one with a deliciously cold sting in the final pages.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Hill] unwinds skeins of intrigue, passion and betrayal....There aren’t many novels in which the words themselves help add to the challenge of identifying a killer.” — Orlando Sentinel
“Hill’s...continued willingness to challenge the mystery genre and the masterful way he works his story are well worth the price of admission.” — Rocky Mountain News
“He may not be the most famous British mystery author...but Reginald Hill may very well be the best.” — Tampa Tribune
“Literate, nuanced, dark-souled....Hill keeps the reader mesmerized.” — Providence Journal
“The meandering complexity of the plot and the entertaining departmental byplay succeed in teasing the reader along to the neat bookend of a finale.” — Houston Chronicle
No one writes a more civilized British police procedural than Reginald Hill. His intricately constructed plots are studded with challenging puzzle components like coded messages and locked-room crime scenes.
New York Times Book Review
A real treat. The characters are deftly drawn, the plot constantly delivers surprises and the assured narrative demonstrates again what a terrific comic writer [Hill] is.
Hill’s sleuths, Dalziel and Pascoe, never fail to entertain.
Hill writes with an intelligence and wit that make him, in my opinion, possibly the best crime writer of our day.
Wickedly clever.
Literate without being pedantic, humorous without undercutting suspense, Hill’s book will keep you reading far beyond the midnight hour.
Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining.
Reginald Hill turns the genre on its ear in Good Morning, Midnight ....well worth the price of admission.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
[Hill] unwinds skeins of intrigue, passion and betrayal....There aren’t many novels in which the words themselves help add to the challenge of identifying a killer.
He may not be the most famous British mystery author...but Reginald Hill may very well be the best.
Hill’s writing seems to only get sharper and punchier.
Literate, nuanced, dark-souled....Hill keeps the reader mesmerized.
Hill’s...continued willingness to challenge the mystery genre and the masterful way he works his story are well worth the price of admission.
The meandering complexity of the plot and the entertaining departmental byplay succeed in teasing the reader along to the neat bookend of a finale.
Absorbing...enjoyable....The writing is brilliant, witty and erudite...the sharply etched characters are memorably individual.
Wickedly clever.
Hill’s sleuths, Dalziel and Pascoe, never fail to entertain.
Twisty...[a] pleasurable puzzle.
[Hill] unwinds skeins of intrigue, passion and betrayal....There aren’t many novels in which the words themselves help add to the challenge of identifying a killer.
Good Morning, Midnight shows Hill on top form.
A graceful stylist.
Reginald Hill turns the genre on its ear in Good Morning, Midnight ....well worth the price of admission.
Stylistic flourishes, variety of tone, rich characterization, convoluted relationships, and excessive discursiveness inform this British procedural, set in Yorkshire. Abrasive Detective Superintendent Dalziel and gentlemanly DCI Pascoe, heroes of 19 novels and 10 seasons on BBC TV, investigate an apparent suicide. Exactly 10 years after his father's suicide, the son seems to have killed himself in the same place and manner. But the circumstances are suspicious. Sandpaper-voiced Shaun Dooley handles the narrative serviceably in an authentic regional accent. He excels in the many long dialogue and monologue passages, which he delivers with depth, color, and understatement. What he and the novel lack is suspense. It’s as if the case were merely an excuse for a sojourn among these characters. Y.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
