Ruling Passion

Ruling Passion
Reginald Hill

‘One of the modern masters of the police procedural’ Sunday TelegraphPeter 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…

REGINALD HILL

RULING PASSION

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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Dedication (#ulink_855650d2-f7bb-5c39-a3e0-ba8ba941cd28)

For Pat again – with love and thanks

Epigraph (#ulink_528dd1fb-9132-5530-977d-1995821ba112)

Search then the ruling passion: there, alone,

The wild are constant, and the cunning known;

The fool consistent, and the false sincere;

Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

This clue once found unravels all the rest …

ALEXANDER POPE

Contents

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Title Page (#ue5284cdf-c3ad-568a-821b-04338773f94d)

Copyright (#u68257f7b-3a8e-598a-99fe-30c3b1192b8f)

Dedication (#ub234459b-b094-5d3a-aa28-817726b1723d)

Epigraph (#u8592cb73-ead6-5199-8215-71d429423778)

Part One (#u9eb8bfe8-28d7-5545-aabc-8c3eae29aafc)

Chapter 1 (#u9d707b64-07f0-58c0-9a74-847a841f4054)

Chapter 2 (#u7ad8fa4b-9d2f-5f2a-81a6-137218bdeefc)

Chapter 3 (#uacd5db1f-c416-543c-a88c-30fb7f75d94b)

Chapter 4 (#u47a3d900-4c12-54fc-8a8d-23ee49224f78)

Chapter 5 (#uea5bfcd9-0506-5daf-8b95-20043734aecd)

Chapter 6 (#u518a78dc-47c0-56ce-934b-b9b152994f0f)

Chapter 7 (#u95d4e62b-15de-5cf6-b895-c2e9b967215e)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 1 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 2 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 3 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 4 (#litres_trial_promo)