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Zusatztext “[The] most amusing and satisfying of all the Dalziel and Pascoe books. . . . A master of the British police procedural.” Informationen zum Autor Reginald Hill, acclaimed English crime writer, was a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe. Their appearances won Hill numerous awards, including a CWA Golden Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe stories were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series. Hill died in 2012. Klappentext Still recovering from a near-fatal bomb blast, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is eager to get back up to speed—and loses an entire day in the process. Agreeing to help Gina Wolfe search for her missing husband—a policeman who vanished years earlier under a very dark cloud—"Fat Andy" doesn't realize that events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's day. Caught up in an intricate composition played up-tempo by a vicious gangster and his politician son; a tabloid journalist chasing the deadliest story of his career; and a desperate wife/widow/fiancée unaware of the target on her forehead, Dalziel has only twenty-four hours to pursue this twisting piece to its shocking, discordant conclusion—hoping that justice will not be among the ultimate victims. Zusammenfassung "One of the best of the Brits! Reginald Hill! adds another winner to his résumé and another chapter to the saga of Dalziel and Pascoe." — San Diego Union-Tribune From Internationally bestselling and Diamond Dagger Award-winning mystery author Reginald Hill! a riveting crime novel featuring Yorkshire coppers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe as they tackle the case of a detective who went missing seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London! Midnight Fugue is a page-turning! complex mystery that builds to a dramatic! twisting conclusion. ...
