{"product_id":"the-price-of-butchers-meat-isbn-9780061451935","title":"The Price of Butcher's Meat","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003e“Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.”\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003e—\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:city w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003eBoston\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:city\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003e Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e \u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"\u003eThere is no end to the praise mystery writer Reginald Hill has already earned for his British police procedurals featuring \u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003eChief Inspector Peter Pascoe and Detective Superintendent “Fat Andy” Dalziel. Having recently bested \u003c\/span\u003eHarlan Coben, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, and James Patterson for the Crime Writers Association’s Mystery and Thriller People’s Choice Dagger, the master returns with \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Butcher’s Meat\u003c\/em\u003e—as a recuperating Andy Dalziel (following his close brush with mortality in \u003cem\u003eDeath Comes for the Fat Man\u003c\/em\u003e) gets involved in the murderous politics of a not-so-peaceful seaside community. \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Butcher’s Meat \u003c\/em\u003eis more “g\u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003ereat stuff from one of the greats, and a true must for fans of British crime” (\u003cem\u003eDenver Rocky Mountain News\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAfter a close encounter with a bomb, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel recuperates at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown. But soon he begins to suspect that those outside the convalescent home have just as many problems as the residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere'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, a Chinese acupuncturist with a Yorkshire accent, a skinny-dipping baronet and his ice-box sister, and a man from Dalziel's past who ought to be dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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. . . . \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVal McDermid, author of A Darker Domain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Few writers in the genre today have Hill’s gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humor, compassion, and a prose style that blends elegance and grace.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Leon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best mysteries of the year. . . . It’s superb. . . . Treat yourself—the pages move as fast as a pint in Andy’s hands.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reginald Hill, the most playful of genre authors, fancies himself a latter-day Jane Austen in \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Butcher’s Meat\u003c\/em\u003e. . . . Hill pulls off the clever literary jest of projecting Austen’s unfinished novel \u003cem\u003eSandition\u003c\/em\u003e into modern times. . . . [He] proves himself brilliant at recycling 19th-century characters and conventions...while gleefully adding macabre genre touches.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hill provides his usual deeply satisfying whodunit. . . . Fans of the Fat Man are in for a treat.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Great stuff from one of the greats, and a true must for fans of British crime.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reginald Hill is one of the masters of crime fiction, and his customary wit, plotting, and sense of style are every bit as much in evidence in \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Butcher’s Meat\u003c\/em\u003e as they are in the previous Dalziel and Pascoe novels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan Rankin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A literary frolic, Hill has brought the epistolary novel into the 21st century with e-mails and a digital voice recorder. . .. .Final word: Great stuff from one of the greats, and a true must for fans of British crime.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] meaty mystery. . . . The Fat Man is back. . . . This is good news indeed. . . . . \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Butcher’s Meat\u003c\/em\u003e offers an intellectually satisfying mystery, deep character studies and witty social commentary clothed in elegant, literate prose. Hill’s mastery of narrative voice creates vitality out of devices that in lesser hands could be disastrous. . . . [It all] works brilliantly.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Excellent. . . . Hill’s perfect pitch (especially for the short, pithy details of dialogue and character description) carries the story through all sorts of villains.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of England’s most innovative and erudite mystery writers. . . . When it comes to challenging the mind, a Hill novel is better than Sudoku.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890741276901,"sku":"NP9780061451935","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061451935.jpg?v=1730233982","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-price-of-butchers-meat-isbn-9780061451935","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}