Death’s Jest-Book (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 18)Reginald Hills best selling duo, Dalziel and Pascoe, return in this brilliant, complex and ultimately moving crime novel: Reginald Hill is probably the best living crime writer in the English speaking world Independent Ex convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat. DS Edgar Wield, intervening in a suspected kidnapping, takes a vulnerable rentboy under his wing,