Review: A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill

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A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
First in a very long-running series of mysteries set in a small city in Northern England, featuring the mismatched police officers Dalziel and Pascoe. (I strongly suspect that there's a bit Dalziel and Pascoe in the DNA of Life on Mars's Gene Hunt and Sam Tyler.)

I first encountered Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series when Radio 7 recently serialized one of the later books in the series, Bones and Silence. A Clubbable Woman is the very first of these novels. I think the books get a bit more solid later on - I found the characterization in this one a bit sketchy. However, it had a good twisty plot, with lots of plausible red-herrings, and was a quick easy read. If you're in the mood for a police procedural with a northern English flavor, this fits the bill.


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