Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill

Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill

Still recovering from a near-fatal bomb blast, Superintendent Andy Dalziel is eager to get back up to speed--and loses an entire day in the process.

Agreeing to help Gina Wolfe search for her missing husband--a policeman who vanished years earlier under a very dark cloud--Fat Andy doesn't realize that events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's day. Caught up in an intricate composition played up-tempo by a vicious gangster and his politician son; a tabloid journalist chasing the deadliest story of his career; and a desperate wife/widow/fiancée unaware of the target on her forehead, Dalziel has only twenty-four hours to pursue this twisting piece to its shocking, discordant conclusion--hoping that justice will not be among the ultimate victims.

Reginald Hill, acclaimed English crime writer, was a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe. Their appearances won Hill numerous awards, including a CWA Golden Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe stories were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series. Hill died in 2012.