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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 3
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English
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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...
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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English
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When rugby union star, Sam Connon's wife is found murdered at her Yorkshire home, everyone at Wetherton Rugby Club is under suspicion. Dalziel, himself a club member, is sent in to investigate. The plot thickens when Dalziel learns that Sam's wife Mary wa
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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English
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When the skeleton of a college principle who died five years before in Austria is found under her own memorial, Dalziel and Pascoe are called in. And when a second body turns up, an air of suspicion descends upon the campus as a world of academic rivalry
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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English
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Peter Pascoe and Ellie Soper finally take the plunge and get married, so Dalziel decides to have a holiday of his own. That is until the son of his hostess goes missing and the discovery of a body in the lake. It's all left down to Dalziel to solve the pr
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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English
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While visiting old friends in rural Oxfordshire, Pascoe and a heavily pregnant Ellie are devastated when they discover the bodies of their hostess Rose and two of her guests all shot dead and another friend missing. Meanwhile in Yorkshire, Dalziel is investigating a series of burglaries, in which the thief leaves a bizarre calling card, and discovers a link with a flamboyant antiques trader.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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English
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Flamboyant businessman and Dalziel's old friend, Dick Elgood, accuses one of his employees, rose-enthusiast Patrick Alderman, of trying to murder him. When Pascoe starts to investigate, he discovers a trail of suspicious deaths in Alderman's past. Meanwhile, attending a police conference, Dalziel bumps into an old flame, but his fumbling attempts to rekindle the passion result in a bloody nose.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
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English
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After a drunken evening at a top country restaurant with his friend the bookmaker, Arnie Bancroft, and smooth-talking Major Kassell, Dalziel's car is involved in an accident. An elderly cyclist is knocked over and killed. But who was driving: Dalziel or Bancroft? When Dalziel is accused of drink-driving, Pascoe is forced to investigate his boss, putting their relationship under strain.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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English
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The death of a young girl at a local fair is the third recent case of bizarre ritual murder for Dalziel and Pascoe. The serial killer is known as the Choker because of his habit of strangling his victims. As the murders continue, the police turn to a fortune-teller for clues. Meanwhile, Pascoe's home life is in disarray as he tries to come to terms with fatherhood.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
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English
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While Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Wield investigate an Animal Rights raid on Wanwood Pharmaceuticals, Pascoe's mind is on the death of his grandmother, Ada.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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English
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The discovery of a man's body in a deserted mine shaft throws a Yorkshire mining community into turmoil as it is forced to re-live some dark events from the past.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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English
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Dalziel becomes involved in a game of psychological one-up-manship, with a clever dangerous killer, who invents almost deliberately implausible alibis when his nearest and dearest begin to die around him.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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English
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The dramatic appearance of a mysterious man at the funeral of a wealthy woman sets tongues wagging in a small Yorkshire village. As members of the grieving family squabble over her estate, they are horrified when the stranger claims to be her long-lost son.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 2
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English
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Following a long campaign protesting her innocence, Cissy Kohler has been released from jail after serving 35 years for murder. Now Dalziel finds himself under investigation for her wrongful conviction. To save his reputation Dalziel decides to re-investigate the murder from 1963 and finds that it may have been a case of national security rather than a crime of passion.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 4
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English
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When Dalziel pays a visit to an old friend, Stella Moon, the landlady of a quiet village pub, he's shocked to find himself at the centre of an armed siege involving Stella's husband, a Falklands veteran. It's not long before armed police surround the pub, but Pascoe has little confidence in the officer in charge. He'd be a lot less happy if he knew Dalziel was one of the hostages.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 1
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English
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Dalziel and Pascoe investigate the kind of case that even hardened coppers dread - the murder of an eight-year-old girl. The murder brings back vivid memories for Dalziel as fifteen years earlier he headed an investigation into the disappearance of another young girl from the same village - Mary, the daughter of Chloe and Walter Wulfstan. The killer was never found.
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Dalziel and Pascoe volume 3
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English
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When a young man, Zack, is found dead at a rave club, Dalziel and Pascoe are under pressure to find out who was the dealer of the drugs that killed him. When the drugs themselves turn out to have been laced with poison, Dalziel and Pascoe start to scrutinize Zack's social circle as they search for possible suspects. Is it blackmail, drugs or just plain old sexual jealousy that holds the key to Zack's death?
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 23
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English
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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...
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 22
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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...
19) Midnight Fugue
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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 24
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English
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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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Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 2
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English
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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...