<div>While recovering from injuries at a seaside resort, the Yorkshire detective stumbles onto a deadly smalltown scandal in this acclaimed crime series. A bomb couldn’t kill Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel—but his convalescence at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown (“Home of the Healthy Holiday”) just might. Sneaking out to the local pub provides Fat Andy with a bit of necessary diversion, allowing him a pint or two on the sly, plus an update on the world of trouble outside the clinic. Of particular note are the conflicting plans of a pair of powerful landowners who want to put Sandytown more prominently on the map. But when a rather macabre murder calls Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe onto the scene, Fat Andy realizes that Avalon itself is no sanctuary from the lethal secrets of the local elite—or from the death tide that now, suddenly, is rising quite rapidly.</div>

The Price of Butcher's Meat

<div>When the weather outside is frightful, curl up with New York Times&ndash;bestselling masters of holiday mystery Elizabeth Peters, Margaret Maron, and more! A New England college hosts a counterfeiting scrooge, an angelic chorister falls to earth, a tight-fisted patriarch realizes his days are numbered, and a politician presents his wife with an explosive gift. In Christmas Stalkings, bestselling mystery author Charlotte MacLeod gathers fellow partners in crime for a collection of capers that will keep you reading&mdash;and guessing&mdash;all through the night. Spend the twelve days of Christmas enjoying tales of holiday mayhem. From secrets in a snowy graveyard to schemes in the Deep South to mischief in Manhattan, this stocking full of cozy stories is to die for. This festive anthology includes thirteen stories by Charlotte MacLeod, Reginald Hill, Elizabeth Peters, Medora Sale, John Malcolm, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Patricia Moyes, Evelyn E. Smith, Eric Wright, Mickey Friedman, Robert Barnard, and Margaret Maron.</div>

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Christmas Stalkings

<div>An innocent man is on the run in a Hitchcockian psychological thriller by the author of the &ldquo;outstanding&rdquo; Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (The New York Times). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). Taking a break from a sour marriage and a bitter wife, Harry Bentink is looking forward to the long-needed respite. It&rsquo;s also a chance to spend some time with Peter, a friend from university for whom an old scandal still clings like mud. But not long after they arrive in north England, Harry and Peter are questioned in the rape and murder of two young female tourists in the Lakeland fells. With no alibis, their every statement twisted, and their dicey pasts used against them, Harry and Peter quickly descend into a nightmare. When Harry is informed that Peter&rsquo;s fate has been sealed, he resorts to a desperate act of self-preservation and flees for his life. On the long, dark road ahead, that&rsquo;s only his first mistake. </div>

Fell of Dark

<div>The first book in the &ldquo;outstanding&rdquo; British police procedural series&mdash;the basis for the long-running BBC series featuring the Yorkshire detective duo (The New York Times). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. Mary Connon froze out her husband, Sam, long ago. She likes the attention of other men&mdash;like the fellow members of Sam&rsquo;s rugby club. Naturally, when she&rsquo;s found dead in her sitting room with a hole in her head, Sam is a suspect. If only he hadn&rsquo;t suffered a dizzying scrum injury that&rsquo;s left everything a blur. He isn&rsquo;t sure that he didn&rsquo;t kill her. But Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, Peter Pascoe, are looking outside the unhappy home. Because it seems everyone within spitting distance of the suburban femme fatale&mdash;from prying neighbors to spurned lovers to jealous wives&mdash;wanted Mary dead. As the field of play expands, so do the motives . . . A Clubbable Woman is the 1st book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

A Clubbable Woman

<div>A retired assassin becomes a target in this &ldquo;feverishly suspenseful . . . tour de force&rdquo; by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (Publishers Weekly). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). Jaysmith is a hit man highly regarded for his telescopic flair for the &ldquo;long kill.&rdquo; Until failing eyesight results in a career-first: Jaysmith misses his target. Perhaps it&rsquo;s time to retire. Where better than the English Lake District? He&rsquo;s fallen for beautiful young widow and single mother Anya Wilson, and has found himself a cozy cottage where he can hang up his M1. Just two problems: Anya&rsquo;s loving father is the man he was hired to kill, and Jaysmith&rsquo;s vicious handlers aren&rsquo;t letting him&mdash;or his intended target&mdash;off the hook. Even if it means taking out Anya and her son with him. For Jaysmith, it&rsquo;s going to be another first: defend, rather than destroy. But this time he&rsquo;s really got to focus. </div>

The Long Kill

<div>In a &ldquo;splendid mystery with . . . a lovely twist,&rdquo; the Yorkshire detectives dig up a bad seed in a horticulturalist&rsquo;s rosy life (Publishers Weekly). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. What&rsquo;s the secret of Patrick Aldermann&rsquo;s success? Well, he was bequeathed his aunt&rsquo;s gardened estate after her sudden death; his wife&rsquo;s wealthy father died leaving the couple a hefty inheritance; and several fatal mishaps among colleagues have allowed the milquetoast to rise in his company with alarming speed. His boss fears he&rsquo;s hired a serial killer&mdash;a suspicion that&rsquo;s compelled the CID&rsquo;s Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe to investigate. Is it possible the mild-mannered accountant, whose only real side passion seems to be roses, has a thorny edge? If yes, then who&rsquo;s the next deadhead to be pruned from Aldermann&rsquo;s perfect life? Deadheads is the 7th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

Deadheads

<div>Set in Nazi-occupied France, this World War II novel of intrigue by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries &ldquo;call[s] to mind John le Carr&eacute;&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Best known for his gritty Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves to be &ldquo;the finest male English contemporary crime writer&rdquo; of stand-alone novels&mdash;now available as ebooks (Val McDermid). Paris, 1945. G&uuml;nter Mai is a compassionate lieutenant with German intelligence, tasked with combing the city for collaborators. He understands the motives for their betrayal of country: greed, desperation, and fear. Janine Simonian is the wife of a Jewish member of the Resistance, virulently anti-Nazi and, at first, a most unlikely recruit for supplying information to the Abwehr. Until the Gestapo&rsquo;s reign of terror escalates and Janine&rsquo;s children are carted off to a pogrom. With Auschwitz only a heartbeat away, Janine strikes a bargain with Mai&mdash;one that will have irreversible consequences for the husband she betrays, for Mai, and for Janine herself. Within the context of a gripping historical thriller, Reginald Hill delivers &ldquo;a moving, richly textured account of an inhuman military occupation and the all-too-human loyalties it spawns&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). </div>

The Collaborators

<div>An inheritance draws a shady long-lost relative out of hiding in &ldquo;the most elaborate mystery in the Yorkshire series&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. Gwendoline Huby&rsquo;s passing has left her relatives more aggrieved than grieving. The wealthy and dotty widow has bequeathed the bulk of her fortune to her son, Alexander, missing in action since World War II. Then a stranger appears at the funeral claiming, against all odds, to be the phantom benefactor. Imposter or rightful heir? For Dalziel and Pascoe, a prickly situation is made even more so when Alexander is murdered. But when a second body turns up&mdash;this time in the CID&rsquo;s parking lot&mdash;the Yorkshire detectives can&rsquo;t fathom a connection. Until they dare to look a little deeper into the Hubys&rsquo; family plot. Child&rsquo;s Play is the 9th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Child's Play

<div>A &ldquo;fast and furious . . . thrilling and satisfying&rdquo; Dickens-inspired whodunit by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series (Nero Award winner Robert Barnard). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone novels as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). Have Yourself a Dickensian Christmas! That&rsquo;s what the Dingley Dell, a secluded hotel in the English countryside, promises. Arabella Allen is eager to partake in the dancing, skating, and spiked punch&mdash;especially with Boswell, Dickens scholar and charming host. But when a blizzard leaves the guests snowbound, the cozy trappings feel more like an icy trap. Finding a frozen corpse can do that. Now Arabella is questioning the real motive behind drawing this assortment of strangers to the middle of nowhere. With all communication to the outside word cut off, the only one she can ask is Boswell. But as the temperatures drop and the body count rises, Arabella doubts she can trust even him on this increasingly deadly silent night. </div>

Red Christmas

<div>It&rsquo;s murder on the moon&mdash;in an out-of-this-world mystery featuring &ldquo;the best detective duo on the scene&rdquo; (Daily Telegraph). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. When astronaut Emile Lemarque takes an accidental&mdash;and televised&mdash;fatal fall from his lunar module, he stirs up more than moon dust. It&rsquo;s the far-flung future, and Peter Pascoe, now UK Commissioner in the Eurofed, believes Emile has made history&mdash;as the first man to be murdered on the moon. How can Pascoe prove it was sabotage when the six-person crew of the Europa agrees it was just a tragic systems failure? By bringing his old mentor, Andrew Dalziel, out of retirement to help him. Shooting for the moon, they embark on an investigation with international consequences. This time, they must do it nearly three hundred million miles from home. One Small Step is the 13th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

One Small Step

<div>A Yorkshire mining town is haunted by a mysterious tragedy in this &ldquo;admirable addition to Hill&rsquo;s Dalziel/Pascoe series&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. Colin Farr has returned to Burrthorpe&mdash;and to judgmental whispers. His father had once been implicated in the disappearance of a little girl, and his apparent suicide confirmed the suspicions. Defensive, troubled, and handsome, Colin&rsquo;s only comfort is with his protective and infatuated tutor, Ellie, wife of Inspector Peter Pascoe. But their increasingly questionable relationship isn&rsquo;t all that&rsquo;s testing Pascoe&rsquo;s patience. So is solving the crime that&rsquo;s plaguing Colin&rsquo;s family history. But when another murder rocks the mining town, and all clues point to Colin, Pascoe and Dalziel must descend into the darkest depths of Burrthorpe to unearth its secrets. Underworld is the 11th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

Underworld

<div>The Yorkshire detectives are upstaged by a Shakespeare-inspired serial killer in this &ldquo;stylish, superior . . . snappy&rdquo; mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. The CID&rsquo;s Andrew Dalziel prefers simple killers. Not a crackpot who fancies himself Hamlet and taunts authorities with lofty quotes from the Bard. Dubbed the Yorkshire Choker, he&rsquo;s already taken three lives in four weeks and promises more tragedy to come. To help nab the serial strangler, Peter Pascoe has enlisted the help of linguistics professors, psychologists, and psychics&mdash;all of it nonsense to the grounded Dalziel. But as the murders escalate, the motives become more tangled, and the killer&rsquo;s identity grows more elusive scene-by-crime-scene, Dalziel and Pascoe must do everything they can to bring down the curtain on the princely fiend. A Killing Kindness is the 6th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

A Killing Kindness

<div>In this &ldquo;tour de force&rdquo; of a mystery, the British detectives investigate a disappearance in a deceptively idyllic Yorkshire village (San Diego Union-Tribune). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. It&rsquo;s the Day of Reckoning in the village of Enscombe, a two-day celebration among locals to feast and to pay old debts. When Enscombe&rsquo;s constable vanishes, it&rsquo;s time for Dalziel and Pascoe to upend the party. At first they&rsquo;re confronted with what appear to be only niggling hiccups in the enclave: break-ins, a vicar with a lustful bent, and family feuds. But as Enscombe&rsquo;s past comes into focus, the investigators begin to see a bigger crack in the picture-perfect village. Now, in this season when misdeeds must not go unpunished, reckoning will indeed be paid. And it may already be too late for Dalziel and Pascoe to change the course of local history. Pictures of Perfection is the 15th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

Pictures of Perfection

<div>Linking the dying words of three slain strangers proves risky for Dalziel and Pascoe in this &ldquo;shrewd . . . and deft&rdquo; mystery (The New York Times). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;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 &ldquo;Polly&rdquo; before expiring; another mumbles &ldquo;Charley&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s innocence, Peter Pascoe follows a confounding trail that leads to one victim&rsquo;s family secrets, a shady retirement community, and corruption within the CID&rsquo;s ranks that&rsquo;s putting more than Dalziel&rsquo;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.</div>

Exit Lines

<div>&ldquo;Dark humor . . . clever plotting . . . and a few fine shivers&rdquo; in Hill&rsquo;s collection of short fiction, including a Dalziel and Pascoe story (Kirkus Reviews). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone novels and short stories as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). &ldquo;With gleeful malice aforethought, Hill explodes the genre of the short murder tale and diverts it to his own wicked, original ends&rdquo; in these five stories and one novella (Publishers Weekly). In &ldquo;Bring Back the Cat,&rdquo; a missing feline leads British PI Joe Sixsmith to a shocking discovery in the suburbs. A freak death at a sadistic French military training camp ignites revenge in &ldquo;The Bull Ring.&rdquo; In &ldquo;Auteur Theory,&rdquo; a marvelous meta-fictional story, author Reginald Hill unleashes his rage when one of his Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries is made into a less-than-stellar movie. &ldquo;Poor Emma&rdquo; dashes the expectations of Jane Austen&rsquo;s heroine after her marriage to Mr. Knightley. A home invasion takes an unexpected twist in &ldquo;Crowded Hour.&rdquo; And in the title tale, a Russian inspector turns ghost hunter to solve a puzzling fifty-year-old mystery. </div>

There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union

<div>A dystopian thriller of &ldquo;twisty intrigue&rdquo; by the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (Publishers Weekly). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). A national Expectation of Life seemed liked a good idea at the time. Nearly half a century ago, Britain&rsquo;s overpopulation resulted in a collapsing economy that foretold certain doom. The visionary solution was left to then&ndash;Prime Minister Matthew Matlock. The Age Bill was his brainchild. It also became mandatory. To control the population, every English citizen was fitted with a clock heart. Expectation of Life: seventy-five. Matlock was the first. The country followed. But now that he&rsquo;s reaching his golden years, Matlock wants only to abolish his draconian law. So do others in high places. If Matlock can trust them. And if he still has what it takes to rise against his E.O.L. before time ticks away. </div>

Matlock's System

<div>&ldquo;A gripping thriller with a cunning plot twist&rdquo; by the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (Mystery Scene Magazine). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). When four-year-old Noll is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, his grieving mother, Jane Maguire, sets off alarms for Det. Inspector Dog Cicero. She&rsquo;s a liar, has a quick-temper, and a dodgy reputation for taking out her frustrations on her little angel. Then Jane makes a startling confession: She murdered Noll and threw his body in the Thames. For the first time since Dog met her, he&rsquo;s sure of one thing: Whatever Jane was guilty of, she hadn&rsquo;t killed her son. The question now is, who is she protecting with this grim deception? And if Noll isn&rsquo;t dead, where is he? Even Dog isn&rsquo;t prepared for the answers as it leads down a serpentine trail for the truth&mdash;and into the heart of a desperate mother with more to lose than she can imagine. </div>

The Only Game

<div>Yorkshire&rsquo;s detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an &ldquo;undeniably lively&rdquo; mystery of murder and illusion (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. What&rsquo;s playing at the Calliope Club may draw a furtive crowd, but as far as the CID&rsquo;s Andrew Dalziel can tell it&rsquo;s all perfectly legal. His partner, Peter Pascoe, begs to differ. From what he hears, an actress&rsquo;s violent ordeal on film looked all too real. When she turns up unharmed, it appears his suspicions were wrong . . . if Andrew and Peter can trust what they see. Because if this dirty business is well and good, why has the film in question vanished? Why has the theater been set ablaze? And why has its proprietor been beaten to death? For answers, Yorkshire&rsquo;s finest are being led into the dark, where someone&rsquo;s bent for pain, pleasure, and murder is just beginning to unreel. A Pinch of Snuff is the 5th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

A Pinch of Snuff

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A girl&rsquo;s disappearance unearths old crimes for the Yorkshire detectives in this &ldquo;multilayered masterpiece&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. It&rsquo;s been fifteen years since three girls were abducted from Dendale. Just as long since the village was flooded to create a reservoir. Haunted by the cold case, Andrew Dalziel believes the truth was submerged forever. But now, with a drought, the ruins of Dendale are reemerging&mdash;along with its mysteries. And as if by a terrible twist of fate, another child has vanished from a nearby hamlet. For Dalziel to finally solve an unspeakable crime, he must once again stir the dread of a still-traumatized community&mdash;and all its secrets. &ldquo;Weaving their pain into his densely textured story of Dendale&rsquo;s cursed past and haunted present, Hill creates a tragic tale of loss and regret and the persistence of grief&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). On Beulah Height is the 18th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

On Beulah Height

<div>Saving a woman&rsquo;s life puts British PI Joe Sixsmith&rsquo;s own life in danger in this mystery by &ldquo;a master of form and style . . . grace and wit&rdquo; (The New York Times). Best known for his gritty Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill &ldquo;could not have created a protagonist more different&rdquo; than Joe Sixsmith, the laid-back British PI and church chorister of West Indian descent, who makes for an engaging addition to crime fiction in this winning mystery, available for the first time as an ebook (Publishers Weekly). It looks to be a melodious weekend for Joe Sixsmith and his chapel choir. They&rsquo;re headed for the first annual choral festival in Llanffugiol, a village said to be the heart of musical life in rural Wales. But the locals are far from welcoming in this off-the-map hamlet where dread lingers as heavy as the mist. Never more so than when Joe comes to the rescue of a naked amnesiac screaming for her life in a burning cottage. No one claims to know her, or what she was doing on a stranger&rsquo;s property, much less why anyone would want to set her ablaze. Secretly recruited by the owner of the cottage to investigate and, oddly enough, just as surreptitiously by the man&rsquo;s wife, Joe soon discovers that arson is the least of the burning secrets in Llanffugiol. </div>

Singing the Sadness

<div>A &ldquo;splendidly sharp . . . mix of espionage, wifely identity crisis, and unlikely romance&rdquo; by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (Kirkus Reviews). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). Molly Keatley is a happy housewife living comfortably day-to-day in Westcliff-on-Sea. That changes in a heartbeat when her husband, Sam, grabs his suitcase, offers a hurried &ldquo;I love you,&rdquo; sprints out the door, and disappears from her life. Then, a British agent invites himself in with shattering news: Sam is a Soviet spy and traitor. And his secrets don&rsquo;t end there. Though her dream life has been upended by an unforgivable betrayal, Molly won&rsquo;t be intimidated. Not by Sam&rsquo;s unstable mistress, not by British Intelligence, nor by Sam&rsquo;s colleagues, who are watching every move she makes. But when she receives a surreptitious invitation from Sam to join him in Bucharest, Molly&rsquo;s life will change once again as she discovers the nature of his lies, the consequences of deception, and the truth about her own desires. Reginald Hill has crafted a &ldquo;terrific, suspenseful tale and an extraordinary heroine&rdquo; (Cleveland Plain-Dealer). </div>

The Spy's Wife

<div>The Yorkshire detectives reopen an old murder case and stir a royal scandal in this &ldquo;dynamic, surprising mystery&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. It was a cold-blooded murder committed in one of Yorkshire&rsquo;s country estates. The conspirators: Sir Ralph Mickledore and his lover, American nanny Cissy Kohler. The victim: Mickledore&rsquo;s hapless wife. Mickledore&rsquo;s execution for the open-and-shut case made headlines. Thirty years later, so has Cissy&rsquo;s parole in light of new testimony suggesting her innocence. But when the witness whose long-suppressed evidence is murdered, Dalziel and Pascoe realize the damage done by the fatal affair isn&rsquo;t over. But whose secrets will prove more revealing? Those buried with Mickledore and his wife a generation ago? Or those Cissy is holding on to for dear life? Recalled to Life is the 14th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Recalled to Life

<div>Pascoe&rsquo;s wife becomes a moving target in this &ldquo;delightfully quirky, literate, often explosively funny&rdquo; mystery in the acclaimed series (Publishers Weekly). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. Ellie Pascoe is a novelist, former campus radical, overprotective mother&mdash;and as an inspector&rsquo;s wife, on high alert of suspicious behavior. When she thwarts an abduction plot, her husband, Peter, and his partner, Andrew Dalziel, assume a link to one of their past cases. An attack on Ellie&rsquo;s best friend, Daphne, and a series of threatening letters from Ellie&rsquo;s foiled kidnappers prove them wrong. Packed off to an isolated seaside safe place, Ellie, Daphne, and their bodyguard, DC Shirley Novello, aren&rsquo;t about to lie in wait for the culprits&rsquo; next move. They&rsquo;re on the offensive. No matter how calculated their plot of retaliation is, they have no idea just how desperately someone wants Ellie out of the picture. Or how insanely epic the reasons are. Arms and the Women is the 19th book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

Arms and the Women

<div>An &ldquo;unerring bawdy comedy&rdquo; of criminally bad behavior by the author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries (Sunday Telegraph). Best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which were adapted into a hit BBC series, Reginald Hill proves himself to be a &ldquo;master of form and style . . . grace and wit&rdquo; in his stand-alone novels as well&mdash;now available as ebooks (The New York Times). Joseph Askern, English teacher in a village day school has three preoccupations: his fantasies about women that are quite unbecoming for such a proper gentleman; a hopelessly delinquent student; and a near obsessive fascination with the history of the noble estate of Averingerett. Unluckily for Joseph, they are all about to collide. The filching father of the troubled pupil has engaged a call girl for her services in blackmail. The scheme: Joseph must aide in the master heist of the stately home (since he knows the place so well) or his immodest, career-ending indiscretion will go public&mdash;with pictures! Unable to wriggle free, Joseph agrees to navigate the caper. But getting into Averingerett isn&rsquo;t the problem. It&rsquo;s getting out that will be more dangerous, unexpected, and scandalous than Joseph imagined. </div>

A Fairly Dangerous Thing

<div>A woman exposes her dead husband&rsquo;s lies in a thriller by the &ldquo;consistently excellent&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; in his stand-alone thrillers as well&mdash;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&rsquo;s just discovered that her life has been a lie. Despite Trent&rsquo;s prosperous career he&rsquo;s left Trudi penniless. He&rsquo;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&rsquo;s not the only one following a dead man&rsquo;s trail. So are Trent&rsquo;s dangerous enemies. Both hunter and hunted, Trudi must go from timid and terrorized mouse to fearless investigator if she&rsquo;s to discover the truth in the deadly shadows of her husband&rsquo;s secret life.</div>

Death of a Dormouse

<div>The &ldquo;master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries&rdquo; sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill &ldquo;raised the classical British mystery to new heights&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;the most remarkable duo in the annals of crime fiction&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series is now available as ebooks. If Alison Girling, former principal of England&rsquo;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 scour the ivory tower for answers, they discover that the shady faculty and creepy student body have more to bury than just one corpse. Try two&mdash;and counting. As Pascoe is sidelined by an old college flame, Dalziel&rsquo;s suspicions of academia are becoming dire. Because the deeper he digs for secrets, the dirtier they get in this &ldquo;steadily, edgily amusing . . . dark comedy&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). An Advancement of Learning is the 2nd book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

An Advancement of Learning

<div>The first in the series starring a PI who&rsquo;s &ldquo;as sweet a hero as you&rsquo;re likely to find in a rough multiracial neighborhood on the outskirts of London&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Joe Sixsmith has lost his job as a lathe operator&mdash;and is in the process of losing his hair, too&mdash;but that doesn&rsquo;t mean he&rsquo;s going to sink into a midlife crisis. Instead he decides to start a new career as a private investigator, with his grumpy, pork rind&ndash;eating cat, Whitey, at his side. To his surprise, there&rsquo;s no shortage of work, and before he knows it he&rsquo;s dealing with murder, drugs, and thugs&mdash;not to mention the meddlesome matchmaking attempts of his aunt Mirabelle. &ldquo;Its no wonder Hill has been dubbed one of today&rsquo;s best British mystery writers. His knowledge of police procedure, his razor-edged wit, his right-on-target descriptions of life&rsquo;s little ironies, and his fine characterizations make every one of his books a unique and outstanding read. . . . Although most detectives might rely on guns, tenacity, and toughness, Joe&rsquo;s qualifications for the job are a kind heart, compassion, and plain good luck. Oddly enough, that&rsquo;s exactly what he needs to solve the case. A wacky, witty story that&rsquo;s warm, charming, and highly entertaining.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Sumptuously plotted.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews, starred review </div>

Blood Sympathy

<div>A detective is drawn to a newly widowed woman in this &ldquo;darkly funny&rdquo; British murder mystery in the Gold Dagger Award&ndash;winning series (Kirkus Reviews). With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up accompanying a crowd of upper-class mourners to a crumbling country house. Dalziel isn&rsquo;t known for his elegant manners, but he has bigger problems than not fitting in: The owner of the home has died under unusual circumstances, and soon more bodies are turning up. And while Dalziel finds himself undeniably attracted to the widow, he knows that she, and everyone in the family, is a suspect. &ldquo;Hill&rsquo;s high standards of humor and civilized characterization are intact here, and justice and ambiguity are served in satisfactory fashion.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Praise for Reginald Hill &ldquo;Hill&rsquo;s polished, sophisticated novels are intelligently written and permeated with his sly and delightful sense of humor . . . Enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated, suspenseful mystery plots.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor </div>

An April Shroud

<div>A British PI finds a body in a box in this mystery with &ldquo;a nice twist waiting at the end&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). As he leaves St Monkey&rsquo;s after choir practice, private investigator Joe Sixsmith makes a heartbreaking discovery in the church graveyard: the body of a boy in a cardboard box. The police think it&rsquo;s just another drug overdose, another homeless kid who&rsquo;s become a casualty of the streets. But Joe can&rsquo;t get this death out of his mind. Though his casebook is already full, he&rsquo;s intent on taking a look around Luton to learn the truth. But as usual, he has to elude his matchmaking aunt Mirabelle at the same time . . . &ldquo;Poking and probing among the village&rsquo;s down-and-outs as well as its upper crust, Joe keeps at it until he discovers the shocking secrets of some of the town&rsquo;s most prominent citizens. A blend of Chaplin and Clouseau, Joe Sixsmith is endearingly funny, but he also has an unerring knack for discovering some of life&rsquo;s most serious truths in the midst of his bumbling misadventures. An outstanding read.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Joe juggles clues, threats, and assaults with equal distinction.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Born Guilty

<div>Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger&ndash;winning author, &ldquo;one of the masters of the modern police procedural&rdquo; (The Sunday Telegraph). A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls&mdash;as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe&mdash;in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself. A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in&mdash;and finds some clues that were left behind in the move. These stories&mdash;and four more&mdash;from the author of the series starring Inspector Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andrew Dalziel take us on a tour of the shadowy corners of Yorkshire, England, from a stormy churchyard to a gloomy attic, with tales of lust, greed, envy, and, of course, murder. &ldquo;One of Britain&rsquo;s most consistently excellent crime novelists.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London) &ldquo;Hill is never predictable.&rdquo; &mdash;Milwaukee Journal Sentinel &ldquo;Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe </div>

Pascoe's Ghost

<div>A British PI novel from the Diamond Dagger Award&ndash;winning author: &ldquo;Entertaining, sly, jokey . . . cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue&rdquo; (The Times, London). British private investigator Joe Sixsmith needs some help to resolve a dispute with his insurance company, so he turns to Luton, England&rsquo;s most prominent law firm. But he winds up storming out, infuriated at the rude treatment he receives&mdash;which presents a problem once the firm&rsquo;s partners start getting murdered soon afterward. And as he tries to fend off the police who suspect him, he&rsquo;s still got his own cases to juggle, including a plot against a female track star who may have to run for her life . . . &ldquo;Among mysterydom&rsquo;s most unique and eccentric characters. Joe is a redundant British lathe operator, black, balding, decidedly middle-aged, and ever at the mercy of his curmudgeonly aunt Mirabelle and his nearly human cat, Whitey. . . . A blend of Chaplin and Clouseau, Joe Sixsmith is endearingly funny, but he also has an unerring knack for discovering some of life&rsquo;s most serious truths in the midst of his bumbling misadventures.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Joe is . . . an unpredictable, entertaining fellow.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly </div>

Killing the Lawyers

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller&mdash;&ldquo;The climax is devastating&rdquo; (The Times, London). Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot&mdash;but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year is to commit suicide. In the midst of all this, Dalziel is participating in a locally produced medieval mystery play&mdash;and has been cast in the role of God. Playing opposite him, as Lucifer, is the very man he suspects of murder . . . &ldquo;Hill&rsquo;s most ambitious Dalziel/Pascoe novel yet&mdash;and one whose humor, keenness, and insight place him securely in the company of Ruth Rendell and P. D. James.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews, starred review &ldquo;If further evidence were needed, this latest mystery confirms Hill&rsquo;s place among top British writers who produce solid stories of detection that succeed as first-rate novels exploring human character. . . . A powerful ending.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;No other genre author . . . writes with such feeling and understanding of silently unhappy women as does Mr. Hill in his tender character portraits of the town wives and daughters.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Bones and Silence

<div>Four novellas in the &ldquo;outstanding procedural series&rdquo; exploring the past&mdash;and future&mdash;of this pair of Yorkshire police detectives (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). British investigators Dalziel and Pascoe have been praised as &ldquo;witty, intelligent . . . two of the more interesting police detectives in modern crime fiction&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). In this collection, their Diamond Dagger Award&ndash;winning creator presents four imaginative tales featuring the duo. The first story explores the chilling start of the Dalziel and Pascoe partnership. In another, they investigate the fate of a woman no one has seen for a year&mdash;except her brother, who claims he is being haunted by her ghost. Then the detectives keep vigil at an isolated farmhouse, waiting to see what is making things go bump in the night. Finally, we jump in time to the twenty-first century and the partners&rsquo; last case: the first man murdered on the moon. &ldquo;Reginald Hill is a mystery writer who is also a very good novelist. . . . [He] uses the police procedural format to get at something deeper than the solution of a crime. . . . Hill can capture a moment, an emotion, or a character with the stroke of a few words.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World</div>

Asking for the Moon

<div>A novel of spies and suspense in Cold War Scotland from a Diamond Dagger&ndash;winning author known for delivering &ldquo;immensely satisfying thrillers&rdquo; (Orlando Sentinel). William Blake Hazlitt is in hiding on Scotland&rsquo;s picturesque Isle of Skye, roughing it in a canvas tent and watching tourists from a distance through binoculars. His disappearance has not raised any alarms so far at the university where he works as an administrator. But Caroline Nevis, the young American student he&rsquo;s been seeing, is growing more concerned about his sudden, mysterious vacation. Now she&rsquo;s decided to investigate. What Caroline doesn&rsquo;t know is that Hazlitt has a secret&mdash;and that she&rsquo;s not the only one looking for him. She is about to engage in a dangerous race with both British and Soviet agents . . . &ldquo;Reginald Hill&rsquo;s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement &ldquo;One of the best mystery writers around today.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly </div>

Death Takes the Low Road

<div>England has become an isolated wasteland ruled over by football hooligans in a thriller that &ldquo;makes Clockwork Orange seem a gentle fantasy&rdquo; (Time Out). The British Parliament has been dissolved. Now the nation is divided among four soccer clubs: City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic, constantly and violently at odds with one another. And the United Kingdom is on its own, alienated from the rest of Europe. Expatriate journalist Whitey Singleton escaped safely to America, and has been an outspoken critic of the tactics of the Club managers ever since. The last place he wants to be is back in London. But now his plane has been hijacked and diverted to Heathrow, and he finds himself at the mercy of this brutal regime&mdash;and drawn into a terrifying web of political intrigue that is about to explode at Wembley Stadium, in this chillingly suspenseful political parable by a winner of the prestigious Diamond Dagger. </div>

Singleton's Law

<div>A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: &ldquo;Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted&rdquo; (Booklist). In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig&mdash;as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide. These three events are in fact linked&mdash;and one tough, determined woman may be about to unravel a shocking conspiracy that lies behind them all, in this lively mystery by &ldquo;one of Britain&rsquo;s most consistently excellent crime novelists&rdquo; (The Times, London). &ldquo;The captivating cast includes an obnoxious student of archaeology, a fraudulent town official, a vaguely clairvoyant eccentric, a couple of mysterious brothers, and various other folks who aren&rsquo;t quite what they seem to be.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers.&rdquo; &mdash;Orlando Sentinel</div>

Beyond the Bone

<div>A &ldquo;particularly compelling&rdquo; novel of brotherhood and brutality among a band of World War I deserters (Publishers Weekly). A small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man&rsquo;s land. One of them, Josh, is shaken by the brutality he has witnessed. Another, Lothar, was a German aristocrat who had no desire to die as a supposed hero. There are tensions among the group, but they are united in their disdain for the war that rages around them&mdash;and Lothar and Josh share another bond, as each has been traumatized by the loss of a brother during the fighting. But as the runaway soldiers hide in the wilds of eastern France, their iron-fisted leader is being targeted by a Military Police captain with a personal vendetta&mdash;and they may find that no matter where they run, they cannot escape danger, in this novel of the First World War that offers &ldquo;a different kind of story&rdquo; (The New York Times). &ldquo;[An] imaginative war story . . . It is Hill&rsquo;s compassionate portrayal of the intricacies of sibling (and romantic) bonding and bereavement that render this novel particularly compelling.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Vivid background detail, an intricate but believable plot, and solid development of innumerable major and minor characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

No Man's Land

<div>An international fugitive is faced with a vexing choice: &ldquo;A first-rate espionage thriller . . . nonstop action&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Lem Stanhope-Swift, the sixth Viscount Bessacarr, has been living in Venezuela, keeping his distance from the British authorities ever since an embezzlement charge landed him in a spot of bother back home. Over the years he&rsquo;s been enjoying the tropical weather and an abundance of liquor and women. But he&rsquo;s just learned that he has cancer, and desperately wants to see the daughter he long ago abandoned. Landing on his home country&rsquo;s soil under a false identity, he&rsquo;s disappointed to discover that the secret service is there to greet him. They have a proposition: They&rsquo;ll arrange the visit, as long as he first agrees to an assignment to kill another wanted man on the run&mdash;the fifth viscount, Lem&rsquo;s own father . . . &ldquo;A perfect mixture of tension and mordant humor.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Entertaining . . . easily keeps the reader&rsquo;s attention through a series of twists and turns that prevent guessing the outcome until the very end.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Hill remains one of the finest mystery writers of our era.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist </div>

Traitor's Blood

<div>Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they&rsquo;ve spotted a Nazi in disguise, in a thriller with &ldquo;more surprise turns than most novels twice its length&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). In postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other once a year at reunions of their regiment. Goldsmith is a local politician now, while Templewood is a gregarious salesman with a taste for the ladies. They lead different lives but have one thing in common: They vividly remember Nikolaus Hebbel of the SS, and they would both like to see him dead. Now they find themselves together, watching a man staying at their hotel in London, checked in under the name Neil Housman. They&rsquo;re sure he resembles Hebbel&mdash;something in the mannerisms, the expression. They ponder whether their memories of twenty years ago are reliable. They follow the man in hopes of confirming his real identity&mdash;and finding out what he&rsquo;s up to. The question is whether they will discover the truth before or after they kill the suspected Nazi war criminal . . . &ldquo;Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers.&rdquo; &mdash;Orlando Sentinel &ldquo;Reginald Hill&rsquo;s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement </div>

A Very Good Hater

<div>Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: &ldquo;Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers&rdquo; (Orlando Sentinel). Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice&mdash;Italy&rsquo;s most romantic city. But so far the trip hasn&rsquo;t been especially romantic. Michael has little patience for Sarah&rsquo;s sentimental nature or her stubborn insistence on socializing with their fellow travelers. Sarah is tiring of Michael&rsquo;s cynicism. But among their little group of tourists, there is even darker strife: One woman confides to Michael that her husband is violent, while that same husband propositions Sarah shamelessly. And eventually they are joined by two mysterious drifters&mdash;one of whom claims to be a mercenary. The journey was meant to be a sunny escape, but storm clouds are clearly brewing. And as Sarah questions her marriage, the police are questioning Michael about a murder . . . From the Diamond Dagger&ndash;winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, this is a novel of secrets, betrayals, and twisting, turning suspense. &ldquo;Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe &ldquo;An excellent English author of crime fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Book Review </div>

Another Death in Venice

<div>From an award-winning author, a historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century England. In the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the country or the cause&mdash;battling and brutalizing his victims whether he was on the side of the king or his enemies in the English Civil War, for the Christians against the Turks or the Turks against the Christians. Written in the form of a memoir, this imaginative biographical novel weaves the historical facts that are known about Captain Fantom with a dramatic and action-filled portrayal of his adventures and misadventures, both alone and with his band of warriors, chosen for their military prowess and moral depravity. &ldquo;Reginald Hill&rsquo;s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement </div>

Captain Fantom

<div>From a Diamond Dagger winner: A dark tale of murderous conspiracies, secret societies, and a royal family in danger. After a series of hideous and gruesome crimes, Inspector Doug McHarg is asking questions&mdash;but some people don&rsquo;t want him to. That includes his boss on the local police force and Scotland Yard&mdash;not to mention whoever is sending him death threats. But McHarg is an unhappy man with little left to lose, and he intends to follow up on the clues that increasingly point to a mysterious, massively powerful organization with a reach that extends to both the White House and the British throne . . . &ldquo;Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe </div>

Who Guards a Prince?

<div>The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary. Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages&mdash;a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party who would pay him. This novel, written in the form of his personal memoirs, takes readers on a journey to his younger days&mdash;from the Croatian farm where he was born and raised to Venice, where he sails to collect a ransom for hostages&mdash;and offers both an intriguing look at how his character was formed and an action-packed account of his earliest adventures. &ldquo;Reginald Hill&rsquo;s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement </div>

The Forging of Fantom

<div>A father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who &ldquo;never fails to shock and surprise&rdquo; (Ian Rankin). Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother&rsquo;s death&mdash;or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a memoir about his time in Britain&rsquo;s security service&mdash;and he intends to include some explosive details about the country&rsquo;s secret connections to the brutal dictator Idi Amin and behind-the-scenes corruption. But there are some who are desperate to prevent his book from ever seeing the light of day&mdash;and now his family may be in lethal danger once again . . . This nerve-jangling thriller from a Diamond Dagger winner is a dark, action-packed look at the lives of those involved in espionage and the people caught in the cross fire&mdash;guilty and innocent alike. &ldquo;Reginald Hill&rsquo;s stories must certainly be among the best now being written.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement &ldquo;Hill is an absorbing, provocative novelist with great style and humour.&rdquo;&mdash;Frances Fyfield </div>

Dream of Darkness

<div>A woman on the run from her husband encounters danger in a seaside town: &ldquo;An eminently likable heroine . . . a highly clever ending&rdquo; (Booklist). Emily Salter is once again using her maiden name, living with her dog in a town along northern England&rsquo;s coast that she remembers fondly from childhood holidays. Her intention was to get far away from her controlling and threatening husband. Here, she&rsquo;s found some refuge, even met a nice gentleman, though she&rsquo;s not anxious to jump into another relationship. But her new home is not as peaceful as it appears on the surface. Spies lurk in its remote corners&mdash;and a dead body lurks under the water. To Emily&rsquo;s shock, she is beginning to suspect that the intrigue has something to do with her&mdash;as well as the man she thought she left behind&mdash;in this suspenseful mystery by a Diamond Dagger&ndash;winning author who &ldquo;delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers&rdquo;( Orlando Sentinel). Also published under the title The Turning of the Tide. </div>

The Castle of the Demon

<div>A Yorkshire cop&rsquo;s reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by &ldquo;the finest male English contemporary crime writer&rdquo; (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&rsquo;s been a triple homicide, and one of his friends&mdash;the chief suspect&mdash;is missing. Pascoe is eager to assist with the case, but the local constabulary doesn&rsquo;t seem to welcome outside help. Meanwhile, Pascoe&rsquo;s superior, the incorrigibly rude Andy Dalziel, needs him back home to find the culprit behind a series of burglaries. Torn between two cases and two jurisdictions, Pascoe knows he must solve these cases quickly&mdash;if not for a sense of loyalty to his friends or duty to his job, then at least for his own sanity. Ruling Passion is the 3rd book in the Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. Praise for Ruling Passion &ldquo;Recipe for a winner: combine the best elements of the gritty procedural with a protagonist reminiscent of Dick Francis, then add a gallery of three-dimensional town-and-country characters and repartee worthy of Rex Stout.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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