“The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never ceases to delight.” —Val McDermid, author of Fever of the BoneIn a stand-alone psychological thriller from acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill, a mysterious ex-con returns to his remote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge. Combining the chilling atmospheres of Thomas Harris’s The … of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, the narrative ingenuity of P.D. James’s The Private Patient, and the compelling characterizations of Hill’s own Dalziel and Pascoe series, Hill delivers a frightful, fast-paced study of suspense at its most sinister in The Woodcutter.
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I have read and enjoyed the author’s police procedurals but this novel was disappointing.
Tom and I read this book about the time that Reginald Hill died , it was the last in a long line of books we read mostly the Dalziel and Pascoe characters. It was easy to read and with his usual wonderful characters well plotted holding your interest. We are avid readers favoring and I am the book-picker but I had forgotten this one so I bought it only find that I remembered it. We donated of all our hard back books and stopped going to our public library during the recession when funding was very low and I had not purchased a Kindle.
The Woodcutter is awesome. It was slow starting but then it never stopped. Wolf is accused of being a pedophile and defrauding his company. After an accident in which he loses an eye and two fingers, he goes to prison, for crimes he didn’t do.
The book is complex and tragic, but I found myself rooting for Wolf from early on, even before I decided he was innocent. And, even after I decided I was sure he didn’t do any of this, I still wondered, did he?
A good read. Some of the characters I loved, lots of them I hated. Was glad to see some of them get what they deserved, but some of the baddies still got off. Worth the time.