The Price of Butcher's Meat A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery

Internationally bestselling and Diamond Dagger Award-winning
mystery writer Reginald Hill sets this mystery in the seaside resort of
Sandytown, where Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is recovering from a
bomb blast while solving a local murder in this “deeply satisfying whodunit” (Entertainment Weekly).

Having narrowly survived
injuries sustained when he was caught in a huge explosion, Detective
Superintendent Andy Dalziel is still on leave from the Yorkshire police
department, recuperating at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of
Sandytown. But he soon begins to suspect that those outside the convalescent
home have just as many problems as the residents.

There’s a psychiatrist with
more to hide than his patients, a pair of powerful landowners with very
different plans for putting the resort on the map, and a man from Dalziel’s
past who ought to be dead.

When someone actually does turn
up dead, and under the most macabre circumstances, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe
is called onto the scene. Together again, Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a
baffling and complex case as further corpses make it increasingly hard for
Sandytown to justify its claim to be “Home of the Healthy Holiday.” But it's
certainly been put on the map.

From charred corpses to Jane
Austen allusions, The Price
of Butcher’s Meat is a police
procedural with something for everyone as it “offers an intellectually
satisfying mystery, deep character studies and witty social commentary clothed
in elegant, literate prose” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).