Reginald Hill

For years, the Stranger House has stood in the village of Illthwaite, offering refuge to travellers....

They moved everyone that long hot summer fifteen years ago....

Superintendent Dalziel had a somewhat cynical view of what college administrations spent his taxes on....

Andy Dalziel of the Mid-Yorks CID has witnessed a murder but it was though dark glass and he was being sick at the time....

This is the first novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, which was made into a hugely popular BBC TV serial....

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....

Wolf Hadda's life was a fairytale - successful businessman and adored husband....

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 10 years earlier....

When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet....

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....

When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it’s because she’s married to a cop....

A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead - this is not a World War One battlefield but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre....

Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world....

Peter Pascoe is in shock....

Caught in the blast of a huge Semtex explosion, the only things preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from stepping through Death's door might be his own size and indomitable willpower....

Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident, and one by an unknown cause....

Three times Detective Chief Inspector Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he's determined to prove that the ex-con turned academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know....

Reginald Hill’s first Dalziel and Pascoe novel. When Connon got back from the Rugby Club, his wife was even more uncommunicative than usual....

Life was a bed of roses for Patrick Aldermann when Great Aunt Florence collapsed in her rose-bed and he inherited Rosemont House with its splendid gardens....

1963. It was the year of the Profumo Scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the Kennedy Assassination...and the Mickledore Hall Murder....