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All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn't feel murder fits in here let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that's exactly what they find

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An Advancement of Learning

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    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 25/06/2009
    ISBN13: 9780007313037, 978-0007313037
    ISBN10: 0007313039

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    All is not well at Holm Coultram College.All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue.Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn't feel murder fits in here let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that's exactly what they find

    Trade Review

    'He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' Andrew Taylor, Independent

    'The finest male English contemporary crime writer. Compassionate, intelligent and entertaining'
    Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

    'He just keeps getting better and better… Hill, a true master, never fails to shock and surprise'
    Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

    'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times

    'An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

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