Reginald Hill Libros

`Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of homebred crime fiction' Observer

A fantastic mystery short story collection, the perfect Christmas gift for crime fiction lovers

When a hitman starts missing, it's time to retire. But soon Jaysmith begins to discover that settling down to the quiet life in the Lake District is not as easy as it seems.

A Christmassy crime collection - the perfect gift this winter!

Into thin air... Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies--or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be . . . except in Dalziel's memory. Twelve years later, the threads of past and present are slowly winding into a chilling mosaic. A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale's ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley. And now the identity of a killer rests on what one child saw . . . and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember . . . .

'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times 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!

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 puzzle leading us on the wild side of the pastoral.

Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside such great mystery writers as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. In his latest novel his much-appreciated team of detectives, the incomparable Dalziel and Pascoe, find themselves in the pretty village of Enscombe, which is steadfastly trying -- though somewhat in vain -- to repel the advances of both tourists and developers. When a policeman is discovered missing, Pascoe is immediately worried, but Dalziel thinks he's overreacting... until the normally phlegmatic Sergeant Wield also shows signs of changing his first impressions of picture-perfect village life. Over two eventful days a new pattern emerges: one of lust and lying, family feuds and ancient injuries, frustrated desires and unbalanced minds. Finally, inevitably, everything comes to a bloody climax at the Squire's Reckoning, where the villagers gather each Lady Day to feast and pay old debts. Not even the three lawmen's presence can change the course of history... though one of them is to find the course of his own personal history changed forever.

A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller -- from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series

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

This first in a series of anthologies sponsored by the British Crime Writers Association features 22 short stories with urban themes. The editor notes that he was looking for stories that offered imaginative takes on the familiar idea of big-city cr

Another excellent Dalziel and Pascoe story from the master of the British crime 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.

'The Death of Dalziel' is the return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the popular police duo. Dalziel is the victim of a huge Semtex explosion and it is up to DCI Peter Pascoe to seek justice for him.

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. Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way exactly just how much difference a day makes.

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of crime fiction' Observer 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 Chief Constable. But when a dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play!

A man drowns, another dies in a motorbike crash. The Mid-Yorkshire Gazette receives correspondence from someone claiming responsibility for the deaths. When a third murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing games.

The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. The new editions build on the success of the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations. For those titles which had associated cassettes, the cassettes will remain available with the same ISBNs as before.

Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding's ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.

Cissy Kohler has been in jail for murder for nearly thirty years and Detective Superintendent Dalziel is convinced she's guilty. But, investigating further, he soon finds his certainties being eroded and his reputation at stake.

'One of the modern masters of the police procedural' Sunday Telegraph 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...

'Luminously written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

British Intelligence ensures that before Antonio Lemuel Ernest Sebastian Stanhope-Swift, a terminally ill criminal mastermind, can see his daughter, he must first assassinate a well-known murderer, traitor, and defector--his father

`Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

After surviving a terrorist blast, Dalziel recovers in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort. He befriends Charlotte Heywood, a psychologist who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. After one of Sandytown's landowners is murdered, Pascoe is called in to investigate with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcomed support.

From the bestselling author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, a superb novel of wartime passion, loyalty -- and betrayal When Janine Simonian was dragged roughly from her cell to face trial as a collaborator in the days of reckoning that followed the liberation of France, she refused to conceal her shaven skull from the jeering crowds that greeted her. 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.

One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe on a chilling hunt for a killer and a potential suicide. A drunken Dalziel witnesses the murder that others insist is a tragic accident. Meanwhile the letters of an anonymous woman say she plans to kill herself in a spectacular way...unless Pascoe can find her first. Dalziel has been picked to play God in a local Mystery Play, but can he live up to his role by solving this puzzling psychological thriller...or unveiling the passions and perversions that lie hidden in the human heart?

A Diamond Dagger Award winner. Just because lawyers are rude and expensive doesn't mean P.I. Joe Sixsmith killed two of them. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Meanwhile, a young track star is being threatened with all sorts of nasty things if she shows up at the right place--a new sports complex--at the right time. Somehow, Joe has to clear up both cases before they all run "out" of time. Martin's Press.

Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in a car accident, she retreats even further into her cocoon of ignorance and incuriosity. But staying there isn't an option; her husband apparently died broke, and Trudi's best hope lies in suing the company responsible for his death. And that means asking what her husband was doing on a remote stretch of Yorkshire road. Even the painful knowledge that a woman was involved only leads to larger, more baffling questions. Who was Eric Blair, and why did Trent Adamson have his credit cards? Why had Trent suddenly quit his job? By the time Trudi's done unraveling the truth, her cozy refuge will be in ruins, but the quivering dormouse, too, will be history. Splendidly intricate and involving, and done with panache and wit - The Times of London Fiendish strangers emerge from the past in a fast-paced plot full of invention - The Guardian (UK) Blen

'Deplorably readable' Observer 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...

Joe Sixsmith, Luton's biggest crime buster, heads off to Wales for a choral festival, but finds a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Along with a suspicious policeman, a drug-dealing student and local sabotage of the festival, Sixmith's detection technique adds to the confusion.

Offers a collection of suspenseful stories peopled by a ghost in the pragmatic Soviet Union, a busybody author on a film set, a tormented soldier in France, and other unusual characters

Heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver's suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier. In each case accusing fingers point towards Pal's stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire's own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel. DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in charge of the investigation, finds he is constantly body - checked by his superior as he tries to disentangle the complex relationships of the Maciver family. What really happened between Pal and his stepmother? And how has key witness and exotic hooker Dolores, Our Lady of Pain, contrived to disappear from the face of Mid-Yorkershire? Gradually, however, it becomes clear that the fall-out from Pal's suicide spreads far beyond Yorkshire. To London, to America. Even to Iraq. But the emotional epicentre is firmly placed in Mid-Yorkshire where Pascoe comes to learn that for some people the heart too is a locked room, and in there it is always midnight

All is not well at Holm Coultram College. 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...

<blockquote> <em>For more than five hundred years weary travelers have been coming to the Stranger House—an out-of-the-way inn in the tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England. Now two very different visitors have arrived here onthe same dank and dreary autumn afternoon, each one driven by curiosity . . . and perilous purpose.</em> </blockquote>Australian math wizard Samantha "Sam" Flood is here searching for answers to a disturbing family mystery. Miguel Madero, former novice priest-turned-historical scholar, is exploring the links between an ancestor's bizarre disappearance and the people of Illthwaite. But Sam and Mig are not welcome in this town of secrets and silences. And when their personal quests become strangely intertwined, two determined seekers will find themselves drawn ever deeper into a fetid morass of deceit, mystery, and violence as they race to uncover the shocking truth about who they really are.

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 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.

A special gift for Reginald Hill fans - the return of Joe Sixsmith in a beautifully packaged, witty new crime novel

CRIME & MYSTERY. 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.

When a four-year-old child is abducted from an Essex kindergarten, Detective Inspector Dog Cicero soon realizes that this is to be no routine investigation. Something about the child's mother troubles him. Maybe it's just the fact that she comes from Derry, and Cicero's Northern Ireland scars go deeper than his ruined face. But he feels there's more to it than that. Why, for instance, is Superintendent Toby Tench leaving his devious Special Branch footprints all over Cicero's Romchurch patch? And why does he want the courts to release Jane Maguire on bail after she makes an incriminating confession? Tench plays his cards close to his chest, and Cicero finds the odds are stacked against him both personally and professionally - not that he will let that stop him. For Dog's a gambling man, and when death's the only game in town, a gambling man has got to play.

A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls—as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe—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—and finds some clues that were left behind in the move. These stories—and four more—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.

DCI Harriet Martens, nicknamed The Hard Detective, is in charge of the case involving the murder of Britain's number one tennis star, Bubbles Xinghara. But it's not the investigation that is about to explode her life, but the fact that she has fallen madly in love with a fellow officer.

Publikácia 501 filmov, ktoré musíte vidieť patrí do kategórie kníh, ktoré vždy vyvolajú diskusiu o výbere. V tomto prípade renomovaní autori vyberali zo žánrov akčného, dobrodružného a historického filmu, pokračovali komédiou, drámou, hororom a muzikálom, za ktorými nasledovali romantický film, science fiction a fantasy, detektívka a triler. Na záver ponúkli výber z toho najlepšieho v histórii vojnového filmu a westernu. Priblížili prekvapujúce úspechy na poli špeciálnych efektov v časoch pred a po zavedení počítačových efektov, vynikajúce kinematografické experimenty, šokujúce výkony, debuty i labutie piesne. Prečítajte si našu knihu, pozrite si opísané filmy a utvorte si na ne vlastný názor.

Im Dorf Illthwaite wird das Leben durch das Erscheinen von Sam Flood, einer Australierin mit einer bewegten Familiengeschichte, und Miguel Madero, einem ehemaligen Priester auf der Suche nach seinen Wurzeln, erschüttert. Beide sind in Gefahr, während sie ein dunkles Geheimnis des Dorfes und des Fremdenhauses aufdecken.

Oscar Boswell und Jack Wardle laden ein – zu besinnlichen Festtagen auf dem Landsitz Dingley Dell. Eine Dickens‘sche Weihnacht soll es geben, mit allem, was dazugehört: Gänsebraten und Pastete, Tee und Punsch am offenen Kamin, Eislaufen und Schneewandern, ein viktorianischer Kostümball ... Eine bunte Gesellschaft findet sich im alten Landhaus ein, mit dabei die junge Engländerin Arabella Allen. Als diese jedoch bei einer Erkundungstour durchs Haus auf eine Leiche stößt, wird klar, dass die besinnliche Stimmung trügt. Ein Schneesturm, der den Landsitz von der Außenwelt abschneidet, und das mysteriöse Verschwinden des Hausherrns tun ihr Übriges. Schon bald gerät die Dickens‘sche Weihnacht zum mörderischen Versteckspiel ... Mit Witz und Wärme erzählt der britische Krimiautor Reginald Hill eine tödliche Weihnachtsgeschichte – englisch wie Christmas Pudding, behaglich wie ein knisterndes Kaminfeuer und explosiv wie der Lauf eines Vorderladers. »Nur wenige Krimiautoren haben die Gaben von Hill: außergewöhnliche Intelligenz, bestechender Humor und einen Stil, der Eleganz und Anmut miteinander verbindet.« DONNA LEON

Als die junge Tracey Pedley in den Wäldern rund um Burrthorpe verschwindet, hat die eng verbundene Gemeinschaft ihre eigenen Vorstellungen darüber, was geschehen ist. Doch der stellvertretende Polizeichef Watmough sieht es als das Werk eines Kindermörders, der sich inzwischen das Leben genommen hat – obwohl andere über den tödlichen Sturz des Mannes in einen stillgelegten Schacht spekulieren. Colin Farr kehrt in eine Stadt zurück, die er wütend verlassen hat, und sein Heimkehr ist bereit für Probleme, als ihn ein Universitätskurs mit Ellie Pascoe in Kontakt bringt, was Schwierigkeiten mit sich bringt. In der Zwischenzeit zwingt ein Mord im Burrthorpe-Mine Andy Dalziel zu Maßnahmen, die ihn mit einer feindlichen und verängstigten Gemeinschaft konfrontieren.

Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel behauptet, einen Mord gesehen zu haben. Von seinem Küchenfenster aus, direkt im Haus gegenüber. Der vermeintliche Mörder, Philip Swain, bekannter Bauunternehmer der Stadt, behauptet hingegen, er habe lediglich versucht, seiner psychisch labilen Frau die Waffe zu entreißen, die diese auf sich richtete. Viel spricht für den Bauunternehmer, wenig für Dalziel, der Swain, diesen blasierten Landadeligen, ja noch nie leiden konnte, außerdem in besagter Nacht zugegeben nicht ganz nüchtern war, und natürlich war es dunkel. Aber all das stört Dalziel wenig. Fassungslos muß sein junger Kollege, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, miterleben, wie sein Chef sich hoffnungslos in den Fall Swain verrennt und sich zum Narren macht. Oder doch nicht?