Arms and the Women (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 16)

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Luminously written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, her husband DCI Peter Pascoe and Superintendent Andy Dalziel assume its because shes married to a cop.

While they hunt down the source of the danger, Ellie heads out of town in search of a haven only to get tangled up in a conspiracy involving Irish arms, Colombian drugs and men who will stop at nothing to achieve their ends.

Dalziel eventually concludes the security services are involved, but by then it is too late. Ellies on her own and must dig deep down into her reserves to survive

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Few writers in the genre today have Hills gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace Donna Leon, Sunday Times

The fertility of Hills imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight Val McDermid, Sunday Express

He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world Andrew Taylor, Independent

Reginald Hills novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

An increasingly lyrical and always humorous writer, he is first and foremost an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift Francis Fyfield, Mail On Sunday

Author Bio

Reginald Hill was brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as the crime novels best hope and thirty years on he has more than fulfilled that prophecy.