What do You think about A Killing Kindness (1987)?
This was the only one of the Dalziel and Pascoe series that I hadn't read yet. I fits in well with the rest of the series, although, I felt that there was a bit too much Pascoe and not enough Dalziel here.An interesting thing for me was that it was the first time I read a large print edition - it was the only copy of the book in our library system. It wasn't unpleasant to read the larger print, but I do prefer more normal size. I hope that this wasn't a harbinger of my future but, if it is, I guess it will be better to read large print than to not be able to read at all.
—Paul Secor
Thirty years on A Killing Kindness still reads well and Colin Buchanan does a great job on bringing the audiobook to life. The book must have been ahead of its time in the early 1980s and it shows in the rather improbable sequence of serial killings and the quaint police psychologist (or 'trick cyclist' as Dalziel inevitably calls him), not to mention the gay police sergeant and feminist solicitor. But Reginald Hill's books are always a bit off to the side of mainstream crime writing and that's part of their charm. Who else would name a suspect Wildgoose?
—Phil Benson
