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Reginald Hill

This page lists novels, short story collections and non-fiction by Reginald Hill.

Reginald Hill published some novels using the pseudonyms Patrick Ruell, Dick Morland and Charles Underhill. These books are listed in separate sections on this page.

A number of these novels were published with different titles in the US.

Some of the novels listed have been published a number of times. The cover images shown are, where possible, the first UK edition and a recent mass market paperback edition.



This page is divided into four sections.

- novels / short story collections
- novels by Patrick Ruell
- novels by Dick Morland
- novels by Charles Underhill

 

Reginald Hill: Novels and short story collections

A Clubbable Woman

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1970

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel investigates murder close to home in this first crime novel featuring the much-loved detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe. Home from the rugby club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Sam Connon finds his wife more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for a few hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever – by a hole in the middle of her forehead. Andy Dalziel, a long-standing member of the club, wants to run the murder investigation along his own lines. But DS Peter Pascoe’s loyalties lie elsewhere and he has quite different ideas about how the case should proceed."
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An Advancement of Learning

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1971

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches’ sabbaths, a body buried under a statue. Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn’t feel murder fits in here – let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that’s exactly what they find."
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Fell of Dark

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1971

"A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he’s going in search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there’s no doubt about it. He’s running. Set in his native Cumberland, this was Reginald Hill’s very first novel, a unique blend of detective story, psychological thriller and Buchanesque adventure that was to lay the groundwork for many books to come, taking him into the top ranks of British crime fiction."
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A Fairly Dangerous Thing

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1972

"Joe Askern, an innocent schoolteacher, is blackmailed by a gang of thieves into helping them burglarize Averingerett, an historic local mansion."
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Ruling Passion

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1973

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Peter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them dead and the missing fourth a prime suspect in the eyes of the local police. They want his cooperation, but Superintendent Dalziel needs him back in Yorkshire where a string of unsolved burglaries looks like turning nasty. As events unfold, though, the two cases seem to be getting entwined."
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A Very Good Hater

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1974

"Goldsmith and Templewood investigate the background of a man, whom they think may be a Nazi war criminal, and plot his death."
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An April Shroud

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1975

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Superintendent Andy Dalziel’s holiday runs into trouble when he gets marooned by flood water. Rescued and taken to nearby Lake House, he discovers all is not well: the owner has just died tragically and the family fortunes are in decline. He also finds himself drawn to attractive widow, Bonnie Fielding. But several more deaths are to follow. And by the time Pascoe gets involved, it looks like the normally hard-headed Dalziel might have compromised himself beyond redemption."
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Another Death in Venice

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1976

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A Pinch of Snuff

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1978

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"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 particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered. Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target."
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Pascoe's Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1979

A collection of short stories. The contents are:

  • Pascoe's Ghost
  • The Trunk in the Attic
  • The Rio de Janeiro Paper
  • Threatened Species
  • Snowball
  • Exit Line
  • Dalziel's Ghost
Pascoe's Ghost and Dalziel's Ghost are Dalziel and Pascoe stories.

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A Killing Kindness

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1980

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"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. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant. Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums – it’s all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him. And meanwhile the Choker strikes again – and again."
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The Spy's Wife

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1980

"Molly Keatly has a wonderful home in a London suburb, friends and money--and Sam, her loving journalist husband. Then one morning Sam disappears and Molly learns that her husband of eight years is a spy and a traitor. Suddenly Molly is caught in a nightmare, hurtling toward a rendezvous with terror."
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Who Guards a Prince?

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1982

"Who would sever a tongue from a living mouth? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or frighten a young doctor into silence? The questions are piling up, and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them, even - especially - when he's warned off his inquiries by his boss in the local police force, by Scotland Yard, and by increasingly professional death-threats. The pattern that emerges is that of a shadowy, immensely powerful organization, with a reach that extends to the White House and the English throne. And all that stands against them is the implacable McHarg - one discontented copper with little left to lose."
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Deadheads

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1983

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Life is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens. But when his boss, ‘Dandy’ Dick Elgood, suggests to Peter Pascoe that Aldermann is a murderer – then later retracts the accusation – the detective inspector is left with a thorny problem. Not only have the police already dug up some interesting information about Aldermann’s beautiful wife; it also appears that his rapid promotion has been helped by the convenient deaths of some of his colleagues."
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Traitor's Blood

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1983

"Reginald Hill, one of England's most successful detective novelists, shifts gears in this intricate thriller about a cynical, wise-cracking felon caught up in an international espionage mission."
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Exit Lines

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1984

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause. Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a drunken Superintendent Dalziel had been behind the wheel, the integrity of the entire Mid-Yorkshire constabulary is called into question. Helped by the bright but wayward DC Seymour, hindered by ‘Maggie’s Moron’, the half-witted Constable Hector, Peter Pascoe enters the twilight and vulnerable world of the senior citizen – to discover that the beckoning darkness at the end of the tunnel holds few comforts."
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No Man's Land

Reginald Hill

Collins

1985

"In July, 1916, as British and French armies set out for the general slaughter of the late engagements of World War I, three soldiers, caught between the demands of life and loyalty, seek freedom in desertion."
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Child's Play

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1987

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"When Geraldine Lomas dies, her huge fortune is left to an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. But at her funeral a middle-aged man steps forward, claiming to be her long-lost son and rightful heir. He is later found shot dead in the police car park, leaving behind a multitude of suspects. And Superintendent Dalziel and Peter Pascoe find themselves plunged into an investigation that makes most of their previous cases look like child’s play."
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There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union and Other Stories

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1987

"In suburban Luton, a private detective on his first case discovers that curiosity can kill more than just the cat… meanwhile, in wartime Boulogne, one officer will do anything to ensure that his men are ready to kill for their country… and in Stalinist Moscow, Inspector Chislenko must find out why three people have just witnessed a 50-year-old murder. From France to Russia, the 1830s to 1916 and the present day, Reginald Hill has crafted half a dozen tantalizing tales of the unexpected. He asks questions that will intrigue and gives answers that will astound."
The contents are:
  • There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
  • Bring Back the Cat!
  • Poor Emma
  • Auteur Theory
  • The Bull Ring
  • Crowded Hour
Auteur Theory is a Dalziel and Pascoe story. Bring Back the Cat is a Joe Sixsmith story.

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The Collaborators

Reginald Hill

Collins

1987

"Before the jury of former Resistance members pledged to extract vengeance on all who had connived in Nazi rule, Janine stood proudly in court – and pleaded guilty to the charges. Why did so many French men and women collaborate with the Nazi occupation forces whilst others gave their lives in resistance? Were the motives of those who betrayed their country always selfish – and those of the Resistance always noble? The Collaborators is a superb novel of conscience and betrayal that portrays the human dilemmas brought about by the Nazi occupation of France, and asks uncomfortable questions about the priorities of personal and national loyalty in time of war."
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Underworld

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1988

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Years ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide. Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A man’s body is discovered down a mine shaft and it’s clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and Pascoe’s investigation takes them to the heart of a frightened and hostile community. But could the key to the present-day investigation lie in the past when little Tracey vanished into thin air."
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Bones and Silence

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1990

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure who the culprit is. After all, he’s got to believe what he sees with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see? And is he mistaken? Peter Pascoe thinks so. Dalziel senses the doubters around him, which only strengthens his resolve. To make matters worse, he’s being pestered by an anonymous letter-writer, threatening suicide. Worse still, Pascoe seems intent on reminding him of the fact. Meanwhile, the effervescent Eileen Chung is directing the Mystery Plays. And who does she have in mind for God? Daziel, of course. He shouldn’t have too much difficulty acting the part."
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One Small Step

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1990

A Dalziel and Pascoe novella

"In the year 2010 a French astronaut, one of an international space team from the Federated States of Europe, becomes the first man to be murdered on the moon. Retired Detective-Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are required to investigate."
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Recalled to Life

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1992

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"1963. It was the year of the Profumo Scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the Kennedy Assassination – and the Mickeldore Hall Murder. The guests at the Hall that weekend included a Tory minister, a CIA officer, a British diplomat – and Cissy Kohler, a young American nanny who had come to England for love. And love kept her in England for nearly thirty years. In jail. For murder. Revisiting the case many years later, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel finds his certainty over Cissy’s guilt is shaken – a rare state of affairs. And it looks as if not only is his old boss’s reputation at stake, but his own too."
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Blood Sympathy

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1993

A Joe Sixsmith novel

"PI can mean many things, but can it really mean a balding, middle-aged lathe operator from a high rise in Luton? Joe Sixsmith thinks it can. His Aunt Mirabelle thinks you’d have to be crazy to hire him, and Joe’s current clients certainly fit the bill. One’s confessing to the brutal murder of his whole family; another thinks she’s a witch. Next to them, the two heavies who believe Joe is hiding their illicit drugs seem almost normal. As Joe stumbles his way through bodies, gangsters and hostile police officers, he is protected by a combination of sheer luck and the help of a new lady friend. And soon it seems like he might just surpass everyone’s expectations."
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Pictures of Perfection

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1994

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"High in the Mid-Yorkshire Dales stands the traditional village of Enscombe, seemingly untouched by the modern world. But contemporary life is about to intrude when the disappearance of a policeman brings Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe to its doors. As the detectives dig beneath the veneer of idyllic village life a new pattern emerges: of family feuds, ancient injuries, cheating and lies. And finally, as the community gathers for the traditional Squire’s Reckoning, it looks as if the simmering tensions will erupt in a bloody climax."
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The Wood Beyond

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime Club

1995

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"When animal-rights activists uncover a long-dead uniformed body in the grounds of Wanwood House, a research facility, Dalziel is presented with a seemingly insoluble mystery. And he is further perplexed when he’s attracted to one of the campaigners – now implicated in a murderous assault. Meanwhile, the death of his grandmother has led Peter Pascoe to the battlefields of World War 1 and the enigma of who his grandfather was – and why he had to die."
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Born Guilty

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1995

A Joe Sixsmith novel

"Hurrying out of St Monkey’s church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy’s corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he’s ever known. His casebook is full to bursting: retired colonial Mrs C. demands to know how the boy got there; Gallie, the Mutant from Outer Space, urges him to find the stranger nosing into her granddad’s past; while Butcher, that briefest of briefs, is hellbent on digging the dirt on a deputy head’s out-of-school activities. Joe threads his way through the mean streets of Luton, fighting off cops, druggies and the matchmaking machinations of his Auntie Mirabelle. But there’s little joy to be found in the truth: that kids grow up fast, and that even the luckiest ones are born guilty."
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Asking for the Moon

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1996

Dalziel and Pascoe stories

"If you’ve already met Dalziel and Pascoe, you’re in for a treat. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure, you’re in for a revelation! Here in four stories we track their partnership from curtain-up to last act; from the mean streets of Mid-Yorkshire to the mountains of the moon. The Last National Service Man reveals the truth, hitherto buried in police files, of their momentous first encounter, while Pascoe’s Ghost is a chilling tale taking us deep into Poe country. Dalziel’s Ghost, meanwhile, finds the man who normally wouldn’t be seen dead in a graveyard expressing a surprising interest in the ‘other side’. And finally, One Small Step takes a giant leap forward to the first murder on the moon."
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Killing the Lawyers

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1997

A Joe Sixsmith novel

"Joe Sixsmith, Luton’s premier PI, is naturally on the side of the Law… Trouble is, the Law isn’t always ready to return the compliment. When Joe turns to the town’s top law firm for help in a dispute, he is subjected to nothing but abuse. He walks out, vowing to have vengeance. Then someone starts killing the partners one by one, and Joe is the main suspect. At the same time as facing murder charges, Joe is trying to discover who is threatening top athlete Zak Oto. Everyone looks suspicious, from her ex-con minder, Starbright Jones, to her own family. But Joe knows he’s getting close when someone starts trying to kill him."
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On Beulah Height

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1998

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Fifteen years ago they moved everyone out of Dendale. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. But four inhabitants of the valley could not be moved, for nobody knew where they were: three little girls who had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot. This was Andy Dalziel’s worst case and now he looks set to relive it. Another child goes missing in the next valley, and old fears arise as someone sprays the deadly message on Danby bridge: BENNY’S BACK!"
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Arms and the Women

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1999

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, her husband DCI Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andy Dalziel assume it’s because she’s married to a cop. While they hunt down the source of the danger, Ellie heads out of town in search of a haven… only to get tangled up in a conspiracy involving Irish arms, Colombian drugs and men who will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. Dalziel eventually concludes the security services are involved, but by then it is too late. Ellie’s on her own – and must dig deep down into her reserves to survive."
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Singing the Sadness

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

1999

A Joe Sixsmith novel

"Joe Sixsmith is going west, though only as far the Llanffugiol Choral Festival in Wales. But his plans are interrupted when they happen upon a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Joe risks life and limb to rescue the woman, only to be roped in to the investigation by the police officer in charge. Suddenly surrounded by a bevy of suspicious characters, he soon realizes that this case is much more than just arson. Aided by little more than his acute instinct for truth, Joe moves forward over the space of a single weekend to uncover crimes which have been buried for years."
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Dialogues of the Dead

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

2002

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"A man drowns. Another dies in a motorbike crash. Two accidents … yet in a pair of so-called Dialogues sent to the Mid-Yorkshire Gazette as entries in a short story competition, someone seems to be taking responsibility for the deaths. In Mid-Yorkshire CID these claims are greeted with disbelief. But when the story is leaked to television and a third indisputable murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing a game no one knows the rules of against an opponent known only as the Wordman."
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Death's Jest-Book

Reginald Hill

Collins Crime

2003

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Ex-convict and aspiring academic, Franny Roote, has started writing enigmatic letters to DCI Peter Pascoe who immediately smells a rat. DS Edgar Wield, intervening in a suspected kidnapping, takes a vulnerable rentboy under his wing, one who is hiding an earth-shattering secret. And young DC Bowler is looking forward to a weekend away with his girlfriend – but her dreams are filled with a horror too terrifying to share. Detective Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel, lording it over his team, is famed for his omniscience. But even he is unable to foresee the disaster towards which they are all tumbling."
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Good Morning, Midnight

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2004

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"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."
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The Stranger House

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2005

"Things move slowly in the tiny Cumbrian village of Illthwaite, but all that's about to change. Post-grad Sam Flood and historian Miguel Mercado first meet at The Stranger House, Illwaithe’s local inn. Sam is there to find information on her grandmother, who left four decades before, while Mig’s research stretches back to the English Reformation, four centuries ago. The pair have nothing in common, yet their paths become increasingly entangled as they pursue their separate quests. Together they will discover who to trust and who to fear in this ancient village where the inhabitants are determined to keep the past buried."
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The Death of Dalziel

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2007

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Caught in a huge Semtex explosion, it seems the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from death is his size – and sheer bloody-mindedness. An injured DCI Peter Pascoe is convinced there’s a conspiracy at work, despite the security services concluding the blast was in fact an accident. Who, then, are the mysterious Knights Templar with their gruesome acts of vengeance? And what of a hit-and-run on one of Pascoe’s colleagues? And, most importantly, will Dalziel ever wake up to hear the truth."
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A Cure for All Diseases

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2008

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"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 the cure for all diseases, Dalziel is happy to settle for a few weeks' care under a tender nurse. Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow newcomer and psychologist, who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. With much in common, the two soon find themselves in league when trouble comes to town. Sandytown's principal landowners have grandiose plans for the resort – none of which they can agree on. One of them has to go, and when one of them does, in spectacularly gruesome fashion, DCI Peter Pascoe is called in to investigate – with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcome support. But Pascoe finds dark forces at work in a place where medicine and holistic remedies are no match for the oldest cure of all."
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The Roar of the Butterflies

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2008

A Joe Sixsmith novel

"A sweltering summer spells bad news for the private detective business. Thieves and philanderers take the month off and the only swingers in town are those on the 19th hole of the Royal Hoo Golf Course. But now the reputation of the ‘Hoo’ is in jeopardy. Shocking allegations of cheating have been directed at leading member, Chris Porphyry. When Chris turns to Joe Sixsmith, PI, he's more than willing to help – only Joe hadn't counted on being French-kissed then dangled out of a window on the same day. Before long, though, Joe’s on the trail of a conspiracy that starts with missing balls, and ends with murder."
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Midnight Fugue

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2009

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

"Gina Wolfe is searching for her missing husband, believed dead, and hopes Superintendent Andy Dalziel can help. What neither realize is that there are others on the same trail. A tabloid hack with some awkward enquiries about an ambitious MP's father. The politician’s secretary who shares his suspicions. The ruthless entrepreneur in question – and the two henchmen out to make sure the past stays in the past. Four stories, two mismatched detectives trying to figure it all out, and 24 hours in which to do it: Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way exactly how much difference a day makes."
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The Woodcutter

Reginald Hill

HarperCollins

2010

"Wolf Hadda has lead a charmed life. From humble origins as a woodcutter’s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough: Wolf begins to talk. Under her guidance he gets parole, returning to his rundown family home in rural Cumbria. But there is a mysterious period in Wolf’s youth when he disappeared from home and was known to his employers as the Woodcutter. And now the Woodcutter is back, looking for the truth – and revenge."
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Reginald Hill: Novels published using the Patrick Ruell pseudonym

The Castle of the Demon

Patrick Ruell

John Long

1971

Subsequently published as The Turning Of The Tide, credited to Reginald Hill.

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Red Christmas

Patrick Ruell

John Long

1972

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Death Takes a Low Road

Patrick Ruell

Hutchinson

1974

Subsequently published as The Low Road, credited to Reginald Hill.

"When American research student Caroline Nevis investigates the disappearance in Scotland of university administrator William Blake Hazlitt, she becomes embroiled in a sinister race with British and Soviet agents to find Hazlitt."
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Urn Burial

Patrick Ruell

Hutchinson

1975

Subsequently published as Beyond The Bone, credited to Reginald Hill.

"Three seemingly unrelated incidents--the death of a diplomat in Baghdad, the disappearance of a Roman-era skeleton from an archaelogical dig, and the suicide of a British scientist in California--lead to the discovery of a conspiracy in a village in Cumbria."
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The Long Kill

Patrick Ruell

Methuen

1986

Subsequently published with the same title but credited to Reginald Hill.

"Where better for a hitman to retire than in the Lake District, where the air is healthy and the scenery spectacular? And when Jaymith meets attractive young widow, Anya Wilson, he can’t believe his luck. But Jaysmith soon discovers that settling down to the quiet life is not as easy as it seems. His old employers aren’t keen to lose him, his past is always lying in wait, and when Anya introduces him to her family, Jaysmith realizes there’s no way out. He’s back in business, and it makes little difference that this time it’s to defend, not destroy. However you wrap it up, his one accessible talent is the Long Kill."
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Death of a Dormouse

Patrick Ruell

Methuen

1987

Subsequently published with the same title but credited to Reginald Hill.

"The balding policeman on Trudi Adamson’s doorstep brings the worst news possible: her husband Trent has been burned to death in a freak car accident. Suddenly a widow after years of marriage, Trudi soon discovers there’s a lot she didn’t know about her late husband. Why did he resign from his job without telling her? And where is all his money? As shock piles upon shock, Trudi is forced to re-examine her belief in Trent, and ultimately in herself. Compelled to leave the cosy nest of her old life, she is out in the open and fighting for her survival."
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Dream of Darkness

Patrick Ruell

Methuen

1989

Subsequently published with the same title but credited to Reginald Hill.

"Sairey Ellis’s father is writing his memoirs. As an ex-security man whose life work has been in Africa, his revelations will be explosive, blowing the lid off British and Kenyan support for Idi Amin, and exposing the degree of unofficial British connivance in Rhodesian sanctions-busting. He must be persuaded not to publish. This complex thriller from the acclaimed Reginald Hill takes a cool and pitiless look at the role of the security service, and its effect on the individuals, both innocent and knowing, who become caught up in it. Gripping, assured and perceptive in its psychology, here is a chillingly convincing portrait of the repercussions of a life of espionage."
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The Only Game

Patrick Ruell

HarperCollins

1993

Subsequently published with the same title but credited to Reginald Hill.

"When a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is no routine investigation. Something about the child’s mother troubles him. Maybe it’s the fact that she comes from Derry, and Cicero’s Northern Ireland scars go deeper than his ruined face. But he can’t help feeling there’s more to it than that. Soon Cicero finds the odds are stacked against him both personally and professionally – not that he will let that stop him. For he’s a gambling man, and when death’s the only game in town, a gambling man has got to play."
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Reginald Hill: Novels published using the ick Morland pseudonym

Heart Clock

Dick Morland

Faber & Faber

1973

Subsequently published as Matlock's System credited to Reginald Hill.

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Albion! Albion!

Dick Morland

Faber & Faber

1974

"Parliament has been dissolved, and the party has been divided into four clubs - City, United, Wanderers and Athletic - all violently opposed to one another. Expatriate journalist Whitney Singleton, is engaged in America to produce counter-revolutionary propaganda against the regime of the Club Managers. But when his plane is hijacked and diverted to London he is pitched into the savage regime himself."
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Reginald Hill: Novels published using the Charles Underhill pseudonym

Captain Fantom

Charles Underhill

Hutchinson

1978

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The Forging of Fantom

Charles Underhill

Hutchinson

1979

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