Download or read book Death s Jest Book written by Reginald Hill and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he’s determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Meanwhile, Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a child in danger, only to find he has a rent-boy with a priceless secret under his wing. DC Bowler is looking forward to a blissful New Year with the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, her dreams are filled with a horror too terrible to tell . . . And over all this activity broods the huge form of DS Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds, the Fat Man discovers (as have many deities before him) that omniscience can be more trouble than it’s worth and that sometimes all omnipotence means is that you can have any colour you want, as long as it’s black.

Download or read book Death Comes for the Fat Man written by Reginald Hill and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no sign of life. But 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. Caught in the full blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, with only a life support system and his indomitable will between him and the Great Beyond. His colleague, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, is determined to bring those responsible to justice. Pascoe suspects a group called The Templars, and the deeper he digs, the more certain he is that The Templars are getting help from within the police force. The plot is complex, the pace fast, the jokes furious, and the climax astounding. And above it all, like a huge dirigible threatening to break from its moorings, hovers the disembodied spirit of Andy Dalziel.

Download or read book The Death of Dalziel A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel Dalziel Pascoe Book 20 written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller.

Download or read book Exit Lines written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the dying words of three slain strangers proves risky for Dalziel and Pascoe in this “shrewd . . . and deft” mystery (The New York Times). 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 them “the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction” (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as ebooks. On the same night, three old men are offed: One is found in the icy rain sputtering the name “Polly” before expiring; another mumbles “Charley” after being beaten in his bathtub; and most alarmingly, the final words of the third, a cyclist knocked off the road by a drunk driver, implicate Superintendent Andrew Dalziel in the fatal hit and run. Bearing the brunt of three seemingly disparate investigations while proving his partner’s innocence, Peter Pascoe follows a confounding trail that leads to one victim’s family secrets, a shady retirement community, and corruption within the CID’s ranks that’s putting more than Dalziel’s already dicey reputation in peril. Exit Lines is the 8th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Download or read book Child s Play written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwendoline Lomas's son had gone missing during WW2, but she'd never accepted his death. Her funeral is interrupted by a man falling to his knees crying "Mama]". Could it be her son? Dalziel and Pascoe investigate when a body is found in a car.

Download or read book Dialogues of the Dead written by Reginald Hill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reginald Hill has raised the classical British mystery to new heights." -- "The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed as "the master of form and the sorcerer of style,"* the Grand Master of British psychological suspense returns to weave wordplay and murder into a lethal tapestry that only Dalziel and Pascoe can unravel. With characteristic precision, insidious wit, and unparalleled insight into the serpentine criminal mind, Hill offers readers his most diabolical surprise to date. Dialogues of the Dead "Paronomania [n. A clinical obsession with word games] In the Beginning was the Word... And the Word was Murder. A motorist dies after plunging off a bridge.... A motorcyclist is found dead after a fatal encounter with a tree. Two apparently innocuous tragedies ... until two Dialogues are submitted to a local literary competition, claiming responsibility for the deaths. But has anybody heard the Word? When a beautiful, unscrupulous journalist meets her Maker in fact, and then in fiction, as victim of The Third Dialogue, Dalziel and Pascoe take note and find themselves involved in a deadly duel of wits against an opponent known only as the Wordman: a brilliant sociopath who leaves literary clues in his wake ... and who hides in plain sight. Contestants, are you ready? Reginald Hill's books consistently combine wordplay and sleuthing, but the Master is in superb form in Dialogues of the Dead. There are enough clues to make a patchwork quilt, but in this test of wills just who is playing against whom? Is it the Wordman versus the police? Or the killer against his victims? Or is the real game between you, dear reader, and Reginald Hillhimself, at his most intriguing, most enticing, most elusive best? Just when you think you have your killer, guess again. Someone may have conceived the perfect crime. Let the games begin...

Download or read book Arms and the Women written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellie Pascoe finds herself underthreat from an unknown quarter, her husband DCI Peter Pascoeand his boss Superintendant Andy Dalziel assume it's because she's married to a cop. Irish arms, Columbian drugs, and men who will stop at nothing create a tidal wave which threatens to sweep her away. She heads out of town in search of haven, but instead finds herself at the very edge of the storm in a remote clifftop house undermined by the sea.

Download or read book A Clubbable Woman written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And When Connon got back from the rugby club, his wife was dead in front of the TV, her head had been caved in. Superintendent Dalziel knew exactly what went on in the clubhouse, but Sergeant Pascoe had other ideas.

Download or read book Death of a Dormouse written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman exposes her dead husband’s lies in a thriller by the “consistently excellent” author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (The Times, London). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a “master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries” in his stand-alone thrillers as well—now available as ebooks (The New York Times). When her husband, Trent, dies in a car accident, shy and agoraphobic Trudi Adamson is unprepared to face the world. She has no choice. After twenty-five years of marriage, she’s just discovered that her life has been a lie. Despite Trent’s prosperous career he’s left Trudi penniless. He’d quit his job without telling her, maintained a rural hideaway, had a possible lover in Vienna, a Swiss bank account, and traveled the world under numerous aliases. But Trudi’s not the only one following a dead man’s trail. So are Trent’s dangerous enemies. Both hunter and hunted, Trudi must go from timid and terrorized mouse to fearless investigator if she’s to discover the truth in the deadly shadows of her husband’s secret life.

Download or read book Good Morning Midnight written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant new crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe from the Top Ten Bestseller, Reginald Hill

Download or read book One Small Step written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kriminalroman.

Download or read book A Killing Kindness written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times 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...

Download or read book Deadheads written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' Observer Life is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens. But when his boss, 'Dandy' Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer - then later retracts the accusation - the detective inspector is left with a thorny problem. Not only have the police already dug up some interesting information about Aldermann's beautiful wife; it also appears that his rapid promotion has been helped by the convenient deaths of some of his colleagues...

Download or read book A Cure for All Diseases written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving a terrorist blast, Dalziel recovers in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort. He befriends Charlotte Heywood, a psychologist who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. After one of Sandytown's landowners is murdered, Pascoe is called in to investigate with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcomed support.

Download or read book An Advancement of Learning written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not well at Holm Coultram College. All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue. Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn't feel murder fits in here - let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that's exactly what they find...

Download or read book A Pinch of Snuff written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Deplorably readable' Observer 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...

Download or read book Asking for the Moon written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperTorch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two novellas and one short story featuring the two detectives Dalziel and Pascoe, plus a novella which tells the story of how the pair met.