Reginald Hill: An Advancement of Learning (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Lecturers having it away with students, witches' sabbaths on the sand dunes, a body buried under a statue in the gardens... But even with Dalziel's cynical view of what college administrators spend his taxes on, murder doesn't quite seem to fit in here. So when Dalziel and that over-educated sergeant of his, Peter Pascoe, are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, he hadn't reckoned on a rash of killings. While Pascoe rekindles an old flame on the staff, protesting students astutely identify Dalziel as a 'fascist pig'. The Superintendent smiles with satisfaction. If that's how they want to play it...

Reginald Hill: An Advancement of Learning. A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007313037 (June, 2009), 352 p., £7.99.

Reginald Hill: An Advancement of Learning (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
The Second Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe mystery novel series
The second book in the Dalziel and Pascoe mystery novel series sends the two mismatched Yorkshire police detectives among university students -- a group for which Andy Dalziel has no great love. In fact, when he hears a dead body has been found on the grounds of Holm Coultram College, he thinks of it as rather a good start.

This is 1971, and the police force does not enjoy the warmest of relations with the Ivory Tower. Nevertheless, Dalziel takes himself to college, where the single murder is followed by another corpse and then another, until even Dalziel is forced to admit that someone is going after the academic community with rather excessive zeal. As the investigation grows more complelx, help arrives from some unexpected corners, Dalziel's callow young sergeant proves surprisingly insightful, and everyone involved gets some useful education.

Reginald Hill: An Advancement of Learning. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN 1934609080 (April, 2008), 287 p., $14.95.