HILL REGINALD

ΤΟ ΣΠΙΤΙ ΤΩΝ ΞΕΝΩΝ
Ένα θεατρικό έργο με θέμα το σκάνδαλο με τα ορφανά παιδιά που στάλθηκαν στην Αυστραλία από την Αγγλία στάθηκε η αφορμή για να ψάξει η Σαμ -μία πανέξυπνη μαθηματικός- τις πραγματικές της ρίζες. Ο Μιγκ -ένας ιστορικός που βλέπει φαντάσματα- αναζητά και αυτός την αλήθεια για τους προγόνους του. Οι δρόμοι τους θα συναντηθούν στο Ίλθγουεϊτ, ένα ήσυχο χωριό, όπου θα αναστατώσουν με την έρευνά τους την ήρεμη ζωή των κατοίκων. Μπορεί, άραγε, ένα χωριό να κρατήσει κρυφά τα πιο σκοτεινά μυστικά του για πάντα; Προδοσίες, εγκλήματα και ιστορίες αγάπης...
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Ο ΞΥΛΟΚΟΠΟΣ
Η ζωή του Γουλφ Χάντα κυλούσε σαν παραμύθι. Ταπεινής καταγωγής, γιος ξυλοκόπου από την Κούμπρια, κατάφερε να γίνει μεγιστάνας και παντρεύτηκε την κοπέλα που αγαπούσε από έφηβος. Όμως όλα τα καλά πράγματα κάποτε τελειώνουν... Ένα πρωί εισβάλλει στο σπίτι του η Αστυνομία και ο ίδιος φυλακίζεται για εγκλήματα που ορκίζεται ότι δεν έχει διαπράξει. Η ζωή του καταρρέει, η γυναίκα του τον εγκαταλείπει και αυτός βυθίζεται για χρόνια στη σιωπή. Ποιοι ήταν αυτοί που θέλησαν να τον καταστρέψουν; Για δύο πράγματα είναι σίγουρος: ότι η αλήθεια κρύβεται...
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(P/B) A CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
He may have been in a coma but it would take an act of God to put Superintendent 'Fat' Andy Dalziel down for good. In the meantime, He'll settle for a few weeks' bed-rest. Sandytown, a pleasant seaside resort devoted to healing, seems just the ticket. And when a fellow newcomer appears in the shapely form of psychologist Charlotte Heywood, Dalziel develops an unexpected passion for alternative therapy. But Sandytown's warring landowners have grandiose plans for the resort. One of them has to go and when one of them does, in spectacularly g...
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(P/B) THE WOODCUTTER
Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairytale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian 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. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, abandoned by friends and family, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes the breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk and under her guidance gets parole, returning to his rundown family home in rural...
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(P/B) RULING PASSION
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. Superintendent Andy Dalziel wants him back in Yorkshire where a string of unsolved burglaries look like turning nasty. Perhaps it's all to much for Pascoe. As events unfold, the two cases are getting jumbled in his mind... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WOOD BEYOND
A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead - this is not a World War One battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre. Peter Pascoe attends his grandmother's funeral, and scattering her ashes leads him too into wartorn woods in search of his great-grandfather who fought and died in Passchendaele. Seeing the wood for the trees is the problem for Andy Dalziel when he finds himself fancying an animal rights activist, depite her possible complicity in a murderous assault and her appalling taste in whisky. A mind-bending puz...
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(P/B) CHILD'S PLAY
Geraldine Lomas's son went missing in Italy during World War Two, but the eccentric old lady never accepted his death. Now she is dead, leaving the Lomas beer fortune to be divided between an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. As disgruntled relatives gather by the graveside, the funeral is interrupted by a middle-aged man in an Italian suit, who falls to his knees crying, 'Mama!' Andy Dalziel is preoccupied with the illegal book one of his sergeants is running on who is to be appointed as the new C...
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(P/B) ARMS AND THE WOMEN
When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop. But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look like a pair of Barbie dolls. Irish arms, Colombian drugs, and men who will stop at nothing, create a tidal wave which threatens to sweep her away. She heads out of town in search of haven, but instead finds herself at the very edge of the storm in a remote cl...
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(P/B) BONES AND SILENCE
When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure he knows who the culprit is. After all, he's seen him with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see? And is he mistaken? Peter Pascoe certainly thinks so. To make matters worse, he's being pestered by an anonymous letter-writer who is planning suicide and has chosen to confide in Dalziel. The local Mystery Plays should provide a welcome distraction as Dalziel's been cast as God. Unfortunately, the other lead ...
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(P/B) THE LONG KILL
When a hitman starts missing, it's time to retire. And where better than the Lake District where the air is healthy, the scenery spectacular, and there's a handsome young widow who's caught your eye. Everything in this Garden of Eden seems lovely to Jaysmith. But soon he begins to discover, as many another retired man before him, 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 n...
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(P/B) A CLUBBABLE WOMAN
Home from the Rugby club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for five hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever - by a hole in the middle of her forehead. Down at the club, passions run high, on and off the field.This is a home game for Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel who knows all the players, male and female. But Sergeant Peter Pascoe, whose loyalties lie with another code, has a few ideas of his own. (F...
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(P/B) A KILLING KINDNESS
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... (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AN APRIL SHROUD
After seeing Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andy Dalziel soon runs into trouble and water on his own solitary holiday. Rescued by a bunch of somewhat cheerful mourners, he accompanies them back to their rundown mansion to dry off. The owner of Lake House, Bonnie Fielding, seems less troubled by her husband's tragic death than by the problem of saving the family fortunes. Prompted not only by a professional curiosity but also by a more personal interest in Mrs Fielding's ample charms, Dalzi...
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(P/B) MIDNIGHT FUGUE
It starts with a phone call asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe is searching for her missing husband, believed dead, and thinks Superintendent Dalziel can help. What neither realize is that there are others on the same trail. A tabloid hack with some awkward questions about an ambitious MP's father. The honourable member'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 ...
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(P/B) ASKING FOR THE MOON
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 i...
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