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  • DREAM OF DARKNESS
    REGINALD HILL
    A father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who "never fails to shock and surprise" (Ian Rankin).   Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother's death—or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a mem...

    $229.00

  • AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
    REGINALD HILL
    The “master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries” sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times).   Reginald Hill “raised the classical British mystery to new heights” when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe (The New York Times Book Review). Their chafi...

    $229.00

  • BONES AND SILENCE
    REGINALD HILL
    A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller—“The climax is devastating” (The Times, London).   Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot—but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatt...

    $229.00

  • BLOOD SYMPATHY
    REGINALD HILL
    The first in the series starring a PI who’s “as sweet a hero as you’re likely to find in a rough multiracial neighborhood on the outskirts of London” (The New York Times Book Review).   Joe Sixsmith has lost his job as a lathe operator—and is in the process of losing his hair, too—but that doesn’t mean he’s going to sink into a midlife crisis. Instead he decides to start a new ...

    $229.00

  • AN APRIL SHROUD
    REGINALD HILL
    A detective is drawn to a newly widowed woman in this “darkly funny” British murder mystery in the Gold Dagger Award–winning series (Kirkus Reviews).   With his partner away on a honeymoon, Yorkshire detective Andrew Dalziel tries to beat the blues by taking a vacation of his own. But after getting caught in a torrential rain and running into a funeral procession, he winds up a...

    $249.00

  • ASKING FOR THE MOON
    REGINALD HILL
    Four novellas in the “outstanding procedural series” exploring the past—and future—of this pair of Yorkshire police detectives (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).   British investigators Dalziel and Pascoe have been praised as “witty, intelligent . . . two of the more interesting police detectives in modern crime fiction” (Publishers Weekly). In this collection, t...

    $229.00

  • BORN GUILTY
    REGINALD HILL
    A British PI finds a body in a box in this mystery with “a nice twist waiting at the end” (Kirkus Reviews).   As he leaves St Monkey’s after choir practice, private investigator Joe Sixsmith makes a heartbreaking discovery in the church graveyard: the body of a boy in a cardboard box. The police think it’s just another drug overdose, another homeless kid who’s become a casualty...

    $229.00

  • PASCOE'S GHOST
    REGINALD HILL
    Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger–winning author, “one of the masters of the modern police procedural” (The Sunday Telegraph).   A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls—as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe—in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.   A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports...

    $229.00

  • KILLING THE LAWYERS
    REGINALD HILL
    A British PI novel from the Diamond Dagger Award–winning author: “Entertaining, sly, jokey . . . cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue” (The Times, London).   British private investigator Joe Sixsmith needs some help to resolve a dispute with his insurance company, so he turns to Luton, England’s most prominent law firm. But he winds up storming out, infuriated...

    $249.00

  • SINGLETON'S LAW
    REGINALD HILL
    England has become an isolated wasteland ruled over by football hooligans in a thriller that “makes Clockwork Orange seem a gentle fantasy” (Time Out).   The British Parliament has been dissolved. Now the nation is divided among four soccer clubs: City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic, constantly and violently at odds with one another. And the United Kingdom is on its own, alie...

    $229.00

  • CAPTAIN FANTOM
    REGINALD HILL
    From an award-winning author, a historical novel inspired by the life of a Croatian mercenary in seventeenth-century England.   In the chaotic days of the early 1600s, Carlo Fantom, a Central European who spoke thirteen languages, would gladly accept payment to fight, no matter the country or the cause—battling and brutalizing his victims whether he was on the side of the king ...

    $229.00

  • DEATH TAKES THE LOW ROAD
    REGINALD HILL
    A novel of spies and suspense in Cold War Scotland from a Diamond Dagger–winning author known for delivering “immensely satisfying thrillers” (Orlando Sentinel).   William Blake Hazlitt is in hiding on Scotland’s picturesque Isle of Skye, roughing it in a canvas tent and watching tourists from a distance through binoculars. His disappearance has not raised any alarms so far at ...

    $229.00

  • TRAITOR'S BLOOD
    REGINALD HILL
    An international fugitive is faced with a vexing choice: “A first-rate espionage thriller . . . nonstop action” (Publishers Weekly).   Lem Stanhope-Swift, the sixth Viscount Bessacarr, has been living in Venezuela, keeping his distance from the British authorities ever since an embezzlement charge landed him in a spot of bother back home. Over the years he’s been enjoying the t...

    $229.00

  • THE CASTLE OF THE DEMON
    REGINALD HILL
    A woman on the run from her husband encounters danger in a seaside town: “An eminently likable heroine . . . a highly clever ending” (Booklist).   Emily Salter is once again using her maiden name, living with her dog in a town along northern England’s coast that she remembers fondly from childhood holidays. Her intention was to get far away from her controlling and threatening ...

    $229.00

  • A VERY GOOD HATER
    REGINALD HILL
    Years after WWII, a pair of veterans believe they’ve spotted a Nazi in disguise, in a thriller with “more surprise turns than most novels twice its length” (Kirkus Reviews).   In postwar England, Goldsmith and Templewood see each other once a year at reunions of their regiment. Goldsmith is a local politician now, while Templewood is a gregarious salesman with a taste for the l...

    $229.00

  • ANOTHER DEATH IN VENICE
    REGINALD HILL
    Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: “Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers” (Orlando Sentinel).   Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice—Italy’s most romantic city. But so far the trip hasn’t been especially romantic. Michael has little patience for Sarah’s sentimental nature ...

    $229.00

  • BEYOND THE BONE
    REGINALD HILL
    A stolen skeleton leads to a web of mystery: “Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and ingenious plots will be delighted” (Booklist).   In England, a skeleton from Roman times goes missing from the site of an archaeological dig—as does the man overseeing the project. In Baghdad, a diplomat dies suddenly. And in California, a scientist commits suicide.   These ...

    $229.00

  • NO MAN'S LAND
    REGINALD HILL
    A “particularly compelling” novel of brotherhood and brutality among a band of World War I deserters (Publishers Weekly).   A small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man’s land.   One of them, Josh, is shaken by the brutality he has witnessed. Another, Lo...

    $229.00

  • THE FORGING OF FANTOM
    REGINALD HILL
    The award-winning author of Captain Fantom returns with the origin story of the notorious seventeenth-century mercenary.   Carlo Fantom spoke thirteen languages—a skill that proved useful as he traveled widely to sell his brutal services to any party who would pay him. This novel, written in the form of his personal memoirs, takes readers on a journey to his younger days—from t...

    $229.00

  • WHO GUARDS A PRINCE?
    REGINALD HILL
    From a Diamond Dagger winner: A dark tale of murderous conspiracies, secret societies, and a royal family in danger.   After a series of hideous and gruesome crimes, Inspector Doug McHarg is asking questions—but some people don’t want him to. That includes his boss on the local police force and Scotland Yard—not to mention whoever is sending him death threats.   But McHarg is a...

    $229.00