Superintendent Andrew Dalziel is rescued from a flood by a bunch of cheerful mourners, and accompanies them back to Lake House. Bonnie Fielding seems untroubled by her husband's demise, but more than worried by the half-finished banqueting hall that was to have rescued the family from penury.
A Killing Kindness: A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel
Cissy Kohler has been in jail for murder for nearly thirty years and Detective Superintendent Dalziel is convinced she's guilty. But, investigating further, he soon finds his certainties being eroded and his reputation at stake.
'Hill's wit is the constant, ironic foil to his vision, and to call this a mere crime novel is to say Everest is a nice little hill' Frances Hegarty, Mail...
It was a crime of passion in onc of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case.
"It's the crime of the century--but not this century. And there are two hundred and twenty-seven million witness--but none of them can help the investigating officers. For this is murder on the moon in the year 2010.
'Humour and topicality along a cold enigmatic trail of murder' Observer Life is on the up for Patrick Aldermann: his Great Aunt Florence has collapsed into her rose bed leaving him Rosemont House with its splendid gardens.
Recalled to Life