The brilliant new crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe from the Top Ten Bestseller, Reginald Hill

The locked-room suicide of Pal Maciver exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier. In both cases, Pal's stepmother Kay Kafka is implicated. But Kay has a formidable champion in the form of Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel...

An obstructive superior is just the first of DCI Peter Pascoe's problems. Disentangling the tortured relations of the Maciver family is any detective's nightmare, and the fallout from Pal's death reaches far beyond Yorkshire. For some, it seems, the heart is a locked room where it is always midnight...

About the Author

Reginald Hill is a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his outstanding crime novels featuring Dalziel and Pascoe, 'the best detective duo on the scene bar none' (Daily Telegraph). His writing career began with the publication of A Clubbable Woman (1970), which introduced Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DS Peter Pascoe. With their subsequent appearances Reginald Hill has won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Assocation Cartier Diamond Dagger for his lifetime contribution to the genre.

Reviews

'He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world' Andrew Taylor, Independent

'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times

'One of Britain's most consistently excellent crime novelists' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

'Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining' Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

Book Information
ISBN 9780007313211
Author Reginald Hill
Format Paperback
Page Count 624
Imprint HarperCollins
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 410g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 38mm