Russell's ebook Library
1 - A Clubbable Woman
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [1]: Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60.When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband - the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss - comes instantly under susp...
2 - An Advancement of Learning
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [2]: The second book in the Dalziel and Pascoe series sends the two mismatched Yorkshire policemen among university students, a group for which Andy Dalziel has no great love.In fact, when he hears a dead body has been found on the g...
3 - Ruling Passion
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [3]: From Yorkshire to the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, the distance will close off part of his life forever.Motoring down for a reunion with old friends, he arr...
4 - An April Shroud
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [4]: Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding's ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chose...
5 - A Pinch of Snuff
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [5]: 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 part...
6 - A Killing Kindness
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [6]: Andy Dalziel knows how to cope with crime. Give him a nice straightforward murder, some bloke with a gun and a grievance, and he's a happy man.But this new one, that the press is calling the 'Yorkshire Choker' well, Andy could s...
7 - Deadheads
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [7]: Life is a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapses into her Madam Louis Laperrieres and he inherits Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.But when his boss, 'Dandy' Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter ...
8 - Exit Lines
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [8]: Three old men die violently in separate incidents one stormy November night. Because one of them is run over by Andy Dalziel, he comes under suspicion, and it is up to his partner, Peter Pascoe, and Sergeant Wield to investigate...
9 - Child's Play
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [9]: There shouldn't be anything unusual about the death of an elderly widow, until a man appears at her graveside, claiming to be her long-lost son. He's entitled to shed all the tears he likes, but whether he's entitled to her subs...
10 - Under World
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [10]: When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since...
11 - Bones and Silence
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [11]: One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe on a chilling hunt for a killer and a potential suicide.A drunken Dalziel witnesses the murder that others insist is a...
13 - Recalled to Life
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [13]: It was a crime of passion in onc of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case.But thirty years later, when the convicted nanny is freed, then spirited off to America before she can talk, Yorkshire's Superintendent Dalziel r...
14 - Pictures of Perfection
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [14]: High in the Mid-Yorkshire dales stand the pretty village of Enscombe, proud survivor of all that history has thrown at it.But now market forces mass at the gates and the old way of life seems to be changing fast. The Law can do...
15 - The Wood Beyond
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [15]: Police Inspector Peter Pascoe has stumbled upon the remains of an ancestor unjustly executed in wartime.As he delves into the mystery of his disgraced great-grandfather's death, his partner, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalz...
16 - Asking for the Moon
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [16]: Spanning the careers of two of crime fiction's most esteemed police detectives, these four short mysteries are revelatory episodes in the complex relationship between Dalziel and Pascoe.The Last National Service ManIn the openi...
17 - On Beulah Height
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [17]: Into thin air...Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies - or the person who snatched them. The...
18 - Arms and the Women
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [18]: Although Yorkshire's Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Inspector Peter Pascoe are strong supporting characters in Hill's 18th entry in this enduring series, the real stars are an evocative array of women.Deeply shaken by her 9-ye...
19 - Dialogues of the Dead
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [19]: 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 ...
20 - Death's Jest Book
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [20]: Diamond Dagger winner Hill ties up some loose ends from his previous Dalziel & Pascoe book, Dialogues of the Dead, in this gritty, witty psychological suspense novel, whose title evokes a work by 19th-century poet and drama...
21 - Good Morning, Midnight
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [21]: Like father like son...But heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier.In each case accusing fingers point towards Pal's stepmother...
22 - Death Comes for the Fat Man
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [22]: 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 And...
23 - A Cure for All Diseases
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [23]: 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, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be ...
24 - Midnight Fugue
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [24]: It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story.Gina Wolfe has come to Mid-Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fia...
