Reginald Hill

It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story. Gina Wolfe has come to mid Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiancee, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job. What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's...

Four crime novellas featuring British police detectives Peter Pascoe and Andy Dalziel. They include One Small Step in which Dalziel goes to the moon to investigate the murder of a French astronaut.

Inspector Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a series of "accidental" deaths, all of which, in some way, benefit young business executive and rose gardening fanatic Patrick Aldermann.

In England the black private eye, Joe Sixsmith, visits his lawyers regarding a car insurance policy and gets thrown out. When the lawyers are killed, he becomes a suspect and must clear his name.