Ruling Passion, Reginald Hill
Ruling Passion, Reginald Hill
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Ruling Passion

Author: Reginald Hill

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2024


Synopsis

A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid).

With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends—the chief suspect—is missing.

Pascoe is eager to assist with the case, but the local constabulary doesn't seem to welcome outside help. Meanwhile, Pascoe's superior, the incorrigibly rude Andy Dalziel, needs him back home to find the culprit behind a series of burglaries. Torn between two cases and two jurisdictions, Pascoe knows he must solve these cases quickly—if not for a sense of loyalty to his friends or duty to his job, then at least for his own sanity.

About Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill has been widely published both in England and the United States. He received Britain's most coveted mystery writers award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel and Pascoe series.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 20, 2019

Two parallel plots, one involving the murder of university friends of Pascoe, keep our duo occupied - a good police procedural nearly fifty years old but not too dated at all.......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on January 06, 2010

I think this is where the Dalziel and Pascoe series really starts to hit its stride. Although I enjoyed the first two books, I didn't really think they were fully representative of the strengths of the series. This book, while not as strong as some of the later ones, feels like it has all of the ele......more

Goodreads review by Mario on July 13, 2023

An enjoyable and easy read as this series always is. A good antidote if your previous read has been a bit dark or intense. This one is early in the series, the third, and there is no doubt that the later ones improve when the characters are more established and the writing style and plots become more......more