Reginald Hill
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English
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From the winner of Britian's prestigious Diamond Dagger Award, comes a beautifully written, multilayered psychological thriller Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he's determined to get his man. In a brilliant novel of psychological suspense, acclaimed...
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 21
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HarperCollins
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English
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A complex and deeply satisfying tale ... one part traditional English whodunit and one part shadowy corporate thriller. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except ... Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer....
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Reginald Hill, award-winning author of The Price of Butcher's Meat and Death Comes for the Fat Man , returns with Midnight Fugue , a riveting new crime novel featuring Yorkshire coppers Dalziel and Pascoe as they tackle the case of a detective who went missing seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London, Midnight Fugue is a riveting, complex...
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Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion of the upper-crust family that owns the most exclusive country club in Luton. Porphyry faces expulsion for the heinous crime of cheating at golf.
Inexplicably, political boss/crime czar "King Rat" Ratcliffe...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Andy Dalziel had decided he would not be able to solve the disappearance of three young girls, and after twelve years, he finally forgot about it, but now children are vanishing again and Andy knows that the two cases are connected.
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Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Wolf Hadda has risen from his modest beginnings as a lowly woodcutter's son to become a successful businessman, but when he is falsely imprisoned on charges of child pornography and fraud, he retreats into solitude and silence until his parole and then sets out on a quest for revenge that takes him to a dark place from which he can never return.
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary. Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages-a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party who would pay him. This novel, written in the form of his personal memoirs, takes readers on a journey to his younger days-from the Croatian farm where he was born and raised to Venice, where he sails to...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" ( The Sunday Telegraph ) A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls-as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe-in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself....
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. If Alison Girling, former principal of England's Holm Coultram College, died in an avalanche in Austria, why has her skeleton been unearthed on campus? While no love is lost between conservative detective Andrew Dalziel and the entirety of Liberal Arts, his attention to the grim discovery must be paid. But when he and Peter Pascoe...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller- "The climax is devastating" ( The Times London). Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot-but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year...
12) The Spy's Wife
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English
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Molly Keatley is a happy housewife living comfortably day-to-day in Westcliff-on-Sea. That changes in a heartbeat when her husband, Sam, grabs his suitcase, offers a hurried "I love you," sprints out the door, and disappears from her life. Then, a British agent invites himself in with shattering news: Sam is a Soviet spy and traitor. And his secrets don't end there. Though her dream life has been upended by an unforgivable betrayal, Molly won't be...
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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Not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen . . Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Barreling his way into an investigation of possible terrorist activities, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is caught in the blast of a huge explosion at a video shop-and only Fat Andy's" considerable bulk prevents...
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The new Dalziel and Pascoe novel to delight and thrill Reginald Hill fans.
Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn’t ready for God, others that God wasn’t ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast in Death Comes for the Fat Man, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks’ care under a tender nurse.
Convalescing...
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BOOK TWENTY IN THE DALZIEL AND PASCOE SERIES
Caught in a huge Semtex explosion, it seems the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from death is his size — and sheer bloody-mindedness. An injured DCI Peter Pascoe is convinced there's a conspiracy at work, despite the security services concluding the blast was in fact an accident. Who, then, are the mysterious Knights Templar with their gruesome acts of vengeance? And what of a hit-and-run...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." - Boston Globe There is no end to the praise mystery writer Reginald Hill has already earned for his British police procedurals featuring Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe and Detective Superintendent "Fat Andy" Dalziel. Having recently bested Harlan Coben, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, and James Patterson for the Crime Writers Association's Mystery and Thriller People's Choice Dagger, the...
19) A Pinch of Snuff
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Yorkshire s detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an undeniably lively mystery of murder and illusion ( Kirkus Reviews ). Reginald Hill raised the classical British mystery to new heights when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det.Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe ( The New York Times Book Review ). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who "never fails to shock and surprise" (Ian Rankin). Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother's death-or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a memoir about his time in Britain's security service-and he intends to include...