The Death of Dalziel: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel

The Death of Dalziel: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel
Reginald Hill

The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller.Caught in a huge Semtex explosion, it seems the only thing preventing Superintendent Andy Dalziel from death is his size – and sheer bloody-mindedness.An injured DCI Peter Pascoe is convinced there’s a conspiracy at work, despite the security services concluding the blast was in fact an accident. Who, then, are the mysterious Knights Templar with their gruesome acts of vengeance? And what of a hit-and-run on one of Pascoe’s colleagues? And, most importantly, will Dalziel ever wake up to hear the truth…?

REGINALD HILL

THE DEATH OF DALZIEL

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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For the peacemakerswhichever god’s children they are

What, old acquaintance? Could not all this flesh Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell…Death hath not struck so fat a deer today.

Shakespeare Henry IV Part 1, Act V scene iv

A Knight of the Temple who kills an evil man should not be condemned for killing the man but praised for killing the evil.

St Bernard of Clairvaux,

Liber ad milites Templi

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u87bec184-4cd2-5248-8f69-5b89db37386f)

Title Page (#u3162e782-cb02-57e6-a61c-e0dc3956571a)

Copyright (#u7bd6c7c6-9050-5c3d-93ef-f72d48f04740)

Dedication (#u5f52e9a8-2223-50ad-a056-dc75efa6f60c)

Epigraph (#u539c1242-1221-5a20-ada6-69e932dbdf0a)

Part One (#ucc22c1cf-e663-5dd8-92a2-b1ead3b24c06)

1 mill street (#ud0df086e-67d3-5865-a774-ef8aff094cbc)

2 two mutton pasties and an almond slice (#u9bbad727-52de-5dc4-8cf4-46d95acd4875)

3 intimations (#u6130a1d3-0ffb-5ecb-a44a-47f5d087030f)

4 dust and ashes (#uad067c76-83a8-551d-9847-e7326bfacf8e)

5 the two Geoffreys (#u7b31573a-4b79-5580-b64d-e7d86e2631bb)

6 blue smartie (#u2dd99ba8-8d0e-5c0e-9eff-5b3de1227c7d)

7 dancing with death (#ucb8bc411-aa3b-55b5-aeee-7b2e9d58be19)

8 blame (#udaee4e2c-5fd9-52c5-b203-7092873336f5)

Part Two (#u961e6934-62d9-55f0-ba25-22cf24fc0a53)

1 a tidy desk (#u746742cb-ae12-5099-8f72-db4c0cf546fc)

2 show business (#u60102fdf-654f-5d90-b22f-149af30afda0)

3 walking the dog (#u55d5a0c1-a73b-5ca7-a3d2-7e171dad5d7a)

4 dead men don’t fart! (#ub73be1a1-5094-5e7f-8ae9-8d24364a5b05)

5 age of wonders (#uccb87970-811f-593f-bc39-1b9578c87efe)

Part Three (#uf0968a3e-7e03-5d16-b363-6006ed1bd3b3)