Dialogues of the Dead

I very much enjoyed Dialogues of the Dead by Reginald Hill. It is a Dalziel and Pascoe story as these two detectives try to find a serial killer who writes a story about each murder and sends it to the local library. The killer and some of the other characters are obsessed with words and there are many puzzles that require solving. The author has taken this further with puzzling words through the book. Have a copy of a dictionary by your side. There are a number of characters in this story any of whom could be the murderer, but they're crossed off the list when they become victims. The murderer is not revealed to the reader though suspicion falls on to one of the characters well before that suspicion is confirmed. The whole book is clever, particularly the end but its end is unsatisfying for me. 4/5