Reginald Hill

'So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder' Sunday Telegraph

A Clubbable Woman

Sam Flood, a young Australian mathematician and Miguel Madero, a Spanish wannabe-priest-turned historian, are guests at the Stranger House inn in the village of Illthwaite. The antipathy between them is instant and mutual, but as they follow their separate quests their paths become increasingly entangled.

The Stranger House

A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller -- from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series.

The Woodcutter

New Dalziel and Pascoe novel from Britain's finest male crime writer: 'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Tom Hiney, Observer

Dialogues of the Dead

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...

An Advancement of Learning

When Detective Sergeant Pascoe travels to the sleep village of Thorton Lacey for a reunion with friends he finds not a warm welcome, but a grisly triple murder. He's out of his jurisdication and he's ordered back to Yorkshire, but he's reluctant to leave the case to the local constable who he knows will never guess the true motive of the killer.

Ruling Passion

Superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe investigate a murder, witnessed by a drunken Dalziel, which seems simple at first but becomes infinitely complicated, as the passions and perversities of human nature are illuminated

Bones and Silence

Internationally bestselling and Diamond Dagger Award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets this mystery in the seaside resort of Sandytown, where Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is recovering from a bomb blast while solving a local murder in this "deeply satisfying whodunit" (Entertainment Weekly). Having narrowly survived injuries sustained when he was caught in a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is still on leave from the Yorkshire police department, recuperating at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown. But he soon begins to suspect that those outside the convalescent home have just as many problems as the residents. There's a psychiatrist with more to hide than his patients, a pair of powerful landowners with very different plans for putting the resort on the map, and a man from Dalziel's past who ought to be dead. When someone actually does turn up dead, and under the most macabre circumstances, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe is called onto the scene. Together again, Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a baffling and complex case as further corpses make it increasingly hard for Sandytown to justify its claim to be "Home of the Healthy Holiday." But it's certainly been put on the map. From charred corpses to Jane Austen allusions, The Price of Butcher's Meat is a police procedural with something for everyone as it "offers an intellectually satisfying mystery, deep character studies and witty social commentary clothed in elegant, literate prose" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). --Ian Rankin

A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery

The Price of Butcher's Meat

Things move slowly in the village of Illthwaite, but that changes when two strangers arrive in the village to dig up bits of the past locals would rather keep buried. The antipathy between Sam Flood and Miguel Madero is obvious but as they follow their separate quests their paths become increasingly entangled.

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Bländverk

When Connon gets back from the rugby club, his wife is even more uncommunicative than usual. Connon goes upstairs to sleep for five hours. Then he discovers his wife has been beaten to death. Reginald Hill has won both the Golden Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.

A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel

'Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

On Beulah Height

Three times Detective Chief Inspector Pascoe has wrongly accused Franny Roote. This time he's determined to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know ...

Death's Jest-book

Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Inspector Peter Pascoe investigate the disappearance of a young girl and the suicide of the man who confessed killing her

Underworld

Inspectors Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe delve into the past to investigate the disappearance of four little girls

After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andy Dalziel soon runs into trouble and water on his own solitary holiday. Rescued by a bunch of somewhat cheerful mourners, he accompanies them back to their rundown mansion to dry off. The owner of Lake House, Bonnie Fielding, seems less troubled by her husband's tragic death than by the problem of saving the family fortunes. Prompted not only by a professional curiosity but also by a more personal interest in Mrs Fielding's ample charms, Dalziel stays on. By the time Pascoe reappears, there have been several more deaths and it looks as if the normally hard-headed Dalziel might have compromised himself beyond redemption...

An April Shroud

Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club - once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered. Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target...

A Pinch of Snuff

When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway.If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums - it's all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him.And meanwhile the Choker strikes again - and again...

A Killing Kindness

Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause.Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a drunken Superintendent Dalziel had been behind the wheel, the integrity of the entire Mid-Yorkshire constabulary is called into question.Helped by the bright but wayward DC Seymour, hindered by 'Maggie's Moron', the half-witted Constable Hector, Peter Pascoe enters the twilight and vulnerable world of the senior citizen - to discover that the beckoning darkness at the end of the tunnel holds few comforts.

Exit Lines

Life was a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapsed and he inherited Rosemont House. But when Peter Pascoe's boss suggested to him that Aldermann was a murderer, the inspector was left with a thorny problem.

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