An Advancement of Learning: Book 2 (Dalziel & Pascoe)

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

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Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

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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...