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5wamp_creature's review against another edition
4.0
Nicely done. Lengthy exposition ( guess authors need it too complicated for readers to figure far in advance) but the main characters make it work. Dalziel is quite a piece of work!
falconerreader's review
3.0
I'm trying to go back and re-read my favorite detective series from the start. This is actually book 2, but that's okay, I can't imagine Peter without Ellie. Forty years ago, Hill was a good writer, but nowhere near his current greatness. It drags at points, minor characters seem one dimensional, but the most telling point is Dalziel. In later books he seems like a minor god, some prehistoric deity. In this book he seems human, a fat guy with a failed marriage who likes to tease his right-hand man about his education. Ironically, this makes him a less believable character. He is "the old fat wiseass in the detective novel" instead of Dalziel, larger than life, but very full of it. (life, that is...)
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