Good Morning, Midnight

Good Morning, Midnight
Reginald Hill

The brilliant new crime thriller featuring Dalziel and Pascoe from the Top Ten Bestseller, Reginald HillThe 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…

REGINALD HILL

GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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First published in Great Britain in 2004 by HarperCollins

This edition published in 2010.

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Dedication (#u60590809-a96a-59b2-be4d-494b09bca0f8)

For Max and Mattie

and in memory of Pip

and all those other

companions of creation

right back to Pangur Ban

messe ocus Pangur Bancechtar nathar fira saindan:bith a menmasam fri seilgg,mu memna cein im saincheirdd.

Epigraph (#u60590809-a96a-59b2-be4d-494b09bca0f8)

Good Morning – Midnight –

I’m coming Home –

Day – got tired of Me –

How could I – of Him?

Sunshine was a sweet place –

I liked to stay –

But Morn – didn’t want me – now –

So – Goodnight – Day!

EMILY DICKINSON (1830 – 86)

Contents

Cover (#ucaf78308-e280-5204-a664-a85d66d75312)

Title Page (#uf269d49d-26fa-5fcb-952f-74971054025c)

Copyright (#u02e25296-fbbe-53ec-a802-1a772226824f)

Dedication (#u5844c3c9-2cfd-5b06-bd25-67e299520533)

Epigraph (#ubfa9b390-f791-591c-8ecb-d1477e19a774)

March 1991 (#u11a591da-6d9d-5ffe-a3c9-b5c852696c22)

1 By the Waters of Babylon (#ubfc57990-29db-5818-8cb7-fb7d1318666c)

March 20th, 2002 (#u2d6568c3-1266-519b-bc69-0637ecf74450)

1 Dropping the Loop (#u1b72dd89-65e1-5c63-b244-43e5d756559a)

2 Bedside Manner (#u55720552-ce07-58c4-963e-90c404f4d595)

3 Signora Borgia’s Guest List (#u3b6659e0-0e1f-560e-9179-4552f8ac1312)

4 An Open Door (#u498133c8-4d0d-5e00-b5dc-88f00ae0fbb4)

5 A Tight Cork (#uc6c01e02-c6b0-5923-b0df-e3902d96b47b)

6 A Fishy Smell (#ue3f28498-36fd-5f6a-bb37-0f0d9b7236cb)