Good Morning, Midnight : A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery
Author(s): Reginald Hill
"A complex and deeply satisfying tale...one part traditional English whodunit and one part shadowy corporate thriller." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From Reginald Hill, acclaimed mystery writer and winner of the prestigious Diamond Dagger Award, comes a brilliant psychological story of a mysterious death that echoes one in the past.
Prominent businessman Pal Maciver locked himself in his study and shot himself. It's an open-and-shut case, as far as Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel is concerned. Except...Maciver's father died in an almost identical manner ten years earlier, and "Fat Andy" was the investigating officer. Pal's strange and strained relationship with his beautiful, enigmatic stepmother, Kay Kafka, also raises warning flags. And the family's shady corporate dealings carry two apparent acts of self-slaughter far beyond the borders of Yorkshire, causing policeman Peter Pascoe to question his superior's reticence...and his motives.
Review(s):
“Hill writes with an intelligence and wit that make him, in my opinion, possibly the best crime writer of our day.”
“Reginald Hill turns the genre on its ear in Good Morning, Midnight....well worth the price of admission.”
“Hill’s sleuths, Dalziel and Pascoe, never fail to entertain.”
“A dazzler--Hill’s best in years.”
“Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining.”
“A real treat. The characters are deftly drawn, the plot constantly delivers surprises and the assured narrative demonstrates again what a terrific comic writer [Hill] is.”
“No one writes a more civilized British police procedural than Reginald Hill. His intricately constructed plots are studded with challenging puzzle components like coded messages and locked-room crime scenes.”
“Literate without being pedantic, humorous without undercutting suspense, Hill’s book will keep you reading far beyond the midnight hour.”
“Wickedly clever.”
“Hill is in splendid form here, his plot masterful, his scenario up-to-the-minute regarding world events, and his writing suspenseful, stylish, literary...and even philosophical. Topnotch crime fiction from a master.”
ISBN: 9780062945037