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Just finished Reginald Hill's DEATH'S JEST BOOK, published in the UK in 2002, in the US 2003. My second reading of this huge (in every aspect) novel. Fascinating, about a serial killer captured and in the process, killed, making a tidy ending for the case...except this book wasn't about that. This book dealt with the aftermath of that case. In Dalziel's (Hill's protagonist's) view, his second in…