An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure ...
Una mujer aparece asesinada en su propia casa. El inspector jefe Dalziel y el sargento Pascoe investigan el caso. De inmediato ciertos datos sobre la víctima convierten al marido en principal sospechoso. Era una mujer con manifiestas tendencias a la promiscuidad, y una violenta disputa conyugal no parece improbable
Un policía desaparecido en un tranquilo pueblecito inglés, una pintora especialista en falsificaciones, el robo de un valioso cuadro y unos extraños libros... Una tenue telaraña parece ocultar un sin
En una cuneta aparece el cadáver de una mujer estrangulada. Como pronto se verá, este crimen no es un hecho aislado, sino el punto de partida en la meteórica carrera delictiva de un asesinato en serie, bautizado por la prensa como 'el estrangulador de Yorkshire'. Entre sus rarezas se incluye el habito de telefonear a un periodico local despues de cada asesinato y citar una ambigua frase de Hamlet.
The brilliant new crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe from the Top Ten Bestseller, Reginald Hill 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, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire's own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel. DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in charge of the investigation, finds he is constantly body-checked by his superior as he tries to disentangle the complex relationships of the Maciver family. At first these inquiries seem local and domestic. What really happened between Pal and his stepmother? And how has key witness and exotic hooker Dolores, Our Lady of Pain, contrived to disappear from the face of Mid-Yorkshire? Gradually, however, it becomes clear that the fall-out from Pal's suicide spreads far beyond Yorkshire to London, to America. Even to Iraq.But the emotional epicentre is firmly placed in Mid-Yorkshire where Pascoe comes to learn that for some people the heart too is a locked room, and in there it is always midnight.
Hill's stunning novel featuring the improbable inspector duo of Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, along with Sergeant Wield, opens with an attempt to abduct Pascoe's wife, Ellie. She is able to flee to safety, but staying away from this persistent stalker is no easy task.
