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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
An international fugitive is faced with a vexing choice: "A first-rate espionage thriller . . nonstop action" ( Publishers Weekly ). Lem Stanhope-Swift, the sixth Viscount Bessacarr, has been living in Venezuela, keeping his distance from the British authorities ever since an embezzlement charge landed him in a spot of bother back home. Over the years he's been enjoying the tropical weather and an abundance of liquor and women. But he's just learned...
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....
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
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
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
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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
[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...
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...
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