The Price of Butcher's Meat (53 page)

REGINALD HILL
has been widely published in both England and the United States. He received Britain's most coveted mystery writers' award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel-Pascoe series. He lives with his wife in Cumbria, England.

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The Stranger House

Fell of Dark

The Long Kill

Death of a Dormouse

Dream of Darkness

The Only Game

The Roar of the Butterflies

DALZIEL AND PASCOE NOVELS

A Clubbable Woman

An Advancement of Learning

Ruling Passion

An April Shroud

A Pinch of Snuff

A Killing Kindness

Deadheads

Exit Lines

Child's Play

Underworld

Bones and Silence

One Small Step

Recalled to Life

Pictures of Perfection

Asking for the Moon

The Wood Beyond

On Beulah Height

Arms and the Women

Dialogues of the Dead

Death's Jest-Book

Good Morning, Midnight

Death Comes for the Fat Man

JOE SIXSMITH NOVELS

Blood Sympathy

Born Guilty

Killing the Lawyers

Singing the Sadness

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE PRICE OF BUTCHER'S MEAT
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EPub © Edition SEPTEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061980428

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