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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
England has become an isolated wasteland ruled over by football hooligans in a thriller that "makes Clockwork Orange seem a gentle fantasy" ( Time Out ). The British Parliament has been dissolved. Now the nation is divided among four soccer clubs: City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic, constantly and violently at odds with one another. And the United Kingdom is on its own, alienated from the rest of Europe. Expatriate journalist Whitey Singleton escaped...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe volume 21
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
8) Born Guilty
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A British PI finds a body in a box in this mystery with "a nice twist waiting at the end" ( Kirkus Reviews ). As he leaves St Monkey's after choir practice, PI Joe Sixsmith makes a heartbreaking discovery in the church graveyard: the body of a boy in a cardboard box. The police think it's just another drug overdose, another homeless kid who's become a casualty of the streets. But Joe can't get this death out of his mind. Though his casebook is already...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: "Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted" ( Booklist ). In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig-as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide. These three events are in fact linked-and one tough, determined woman may be about...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Ruling passion
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid). With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends--the chief suspect--is missing....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dialogues of the Dead is a bridge that spans the classic English whodunit and the dark heart of contemporary crime fiction, the serial-killer novel ... .The fertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight." -- Val McDermid Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality-had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A British PI novel from the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author: "Entertaining, sly, jokey . cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue" ( The Times London). British private investigator Joe Sixsmith needs some help to resolve a dispute with his insurance company, so he turns to Luton, England's most prominent law firm. But he winds up storming out, infuriated at the rude treatment he receives-which presents a problem once the firm's partners...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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....
16) Blood Sympathy
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The first in the series starring a PI who's "as sweet a hero as you're likely to find in a rough multiracial neighborhood on the outskirts of London" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Joe Sixsmith has lost his job as a lathe operator-and is in the process of losing his hair, too-but that doesn't mean he's going to sink into a midlife crisis. Instead he decides to start a new career as a private investigator, with his grumpy, pork rind-eating cat,...
17) A Pinch of Snuff
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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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