Good Morning, Midnight: A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery

by Reginald Hill

Paperback, 2019

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Available

Description

Investigating the apparent suicide of a prominent businessman, Yorkshire police officers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe become suspicious when they discover that the victim's father died in the same manner.

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LibraryThing member the.ken.petersen
This is a cracking read! Daziel appears to be behaving strangely: he is allowing Kay Kafka to wrap him around his little finger. Pascoe suspects that she has murdered her step son, but Daziel insists that it is suicide.
A fantastically convoluted plot twists and turns right to the last page, where
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it transpires that ...........
No, I wont spoil your enjoyment!
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LibraryThing member thorold
An enjoyable Dalziel & Pascoe story, with liberal quantities of Emily Dickinson allusions, and a background that draws heavily on the Matrix Churchill ("Arms to Iraq") case of the 90s. The plot develops largely through a series of conflicting, tape-recorded witness statements.

Interestingly, the BBC
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TV version of this story dropped the arms-dealing part of the story altogether, and replaced it with a more domestic scandal involving toxic waste - were they concerned about it hurting their overseas sales, I wonder?
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LibraryThing member ecw0647
Classic Hill with scintillating use of language, puns, allusions, and a nifty mystery to boot. Not only that, you'll learn who the "funnyboogers" are. Some people dislike Hill's work as being too cerebral. Nonsense. They can be read on a multitude of levels, and Hill remains one of my favorite
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authors.

An intriguing and complex story. A man is found dead in a locked room, ostensibly having blown his head off. The story becomes even more mysterious when it's learned he killed himself in a way identical to his father some ten years earlier, even to the Emily Dickensen book of poems found open to virtually the same page in each case.

Statements from the participants given to the police are layered throughout the book and each provides a very different view of events. Lots of questions move the story along. What is Andy's relationship to Kay? Why does Andy keep trying to steer Pete away from his questioning what appears to be simply a case of copy-cat suicide? And who is the rather ordinary VAT inspector who seems to know more than he should?

The ending will be disconcerting to those who like everything tied up with a bow. I found it to be very satisfactory. Great title, by the way, the significance of which is revealed in the book.
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LibraryThing member Laura400
A decent mystery, though not the best in the series in my view.
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