Dalziel and Pascoe Books in Order

Over the course of a single October Sunday, Dalziel agrees to help the wife of a disgraced missing policeman after she spots a photo that might show him alive. The trail threads through political money, tabloid journalism and hired muscle, dragging the Mid Yorkshire team into a very long day.

Recovering from a bomb blast at a seaside clinic in Sandytown, Dalziel cannot resist poking his nose into the town's grand redevelopment plans and long running feuds. When a macabre death shocks the resort, his convalescence collides with Pascoe's murder inquiry in very Austen tinged fashion.

This short novel looks back to the chaotic first meeting between an idealistic young Peter Pascoe and a much younger but no less formidable Andy Dalziel, when a reluctant national serviceman discovers that dodging duty is harder than it looks.

A suspected terrorist bomb in a small video shop leaves Dalziel gravely injured and in a coma, while Pascoe is seconded to a national unit hunting an extremist group with powerful sympathisers. Torn between official secrecy and loyalty to his boss, he pushes the inquiry into increasingly dangerous territory.

A businessman kills himself in a locked room in exactly the same way his father did ten years earlier. Looking past the staged symmetry, Dalziel and Pascoe uncover family betrayals, arms trading, government interests and a web of secrets that reaches well beyond one troubled household.

A long planned revenge, an unfinished Jacobean tragedy and a series of apparently unrelated deaths draw Dalziel, Pascoe and Wield into a maze that stretches from Mid Yorkshire to Germany. Old student friendships, obsessive scholarship and personal loyalties all prove more dangerous than they look.

A writing competition becomes the stage for a killer who submits eerie one sided dialogues describing murders before they happen. Dalziel, Pascoe and a young constable struggle to decode the word games and literary tricks before the body count climbs any higher.

Ellie Pascoe narrowly escapes an apparent abduction and soon finds both herself and sharp tongued neighbour Daphne targeted. Sent to a remote coastal house with Daphne and DC Shirley Novello as protection, she is drawn into a plot involving arms deals, old grudges and women who refuse to stay in the background.

Years after a valley was flooded to create a reservoir and three local girls vanished, drought exposes the drowned village just as another child disappears. Dalziel and Pascoe face grief that never healed, rumours that Benny Lightfoot has returned and a case where legend and memory are as treacherous as the water.

Animal rights protests at a pharmaceutical company collide with the unearthing of an old corpse and a set of World War One documents tied to Pascoe's own family. As Dalziel and Pascoe follow clues from muddy demonstration lines to Flanders fields, the sins of past and present bleed into each other.

A village constable disappears from the apparently tranquil Yorkshire hamlet of Enscombe, sending Pascoe and Wield into a community that prides itself on good manners and buried grievances. Jane Austen echoes, half heard scandals and slyly modern concerns give their search an unsettling edge.

Nearly thirty years after a sensational country house murder linked to ministers and spies, the nanny convicted as an accomplice is released. Determined to defend the reputation of the mentor who led the original inquiry, Dalziel drags Pascoe back through a case where every new answer rewrites the past.

Set in 2010, this novella sends a retired Dalziel and a very senior Pascoe to the Moon to investigate the first murder in space. Political pressure, confined suspects and a hostile environment make their most far flung case as tricky as anything in Mid Yorkshire.

Dalziel, half drunk, witnesses what he is sure is a cold blooded shooting, but the husband and lover present insist it was a struggle gone wrong. While he pushes at the gaps in their story, Pascoe hunts for the sender of chilling anonymous letters promising a spectacular public suicide.

The discovery of a skeleton in an old mine shaft reopens wounds in the tight knit mining village of Burrthorpe, where a child once vanished and a respected miner died in a suspicious fall. As Dalziel and Pascoe investigate, Ellie Pascoe's sympathy for a troubled young miner puts her marriage under pressure.

An eccentric widow leaves her fortune to a son missing in action since the war, with a long deadline for him to claim it. When a man appears at the funeral claiming to be the heir, then ends up dead, Dalziel and Pascoe face a tangle of family resentments, charity politics and murder.

On a single wet night three elderly people die in apparently separate incidents, one of them involving Dalziel's own car. Suspended and under suspicion, he leaves Pascoe to unravel how the victims, an old folks' home and a betting scam really connect.

A wealthy family of rose growers seems to flourish despite a trail of sudden deaths and vanishing relatives. Dalziel and Pascoe dig into old affairs, long delayed inheritances and a garden full of carefully tended secrets to find out who is pruning the family tree.

A serial strangler dubbed the Yorkshire Choker is targeting women and leaving cryptic quotations from Hamlet. Dalziel fixates on a sleazy schoolteacher, Pascoe looks elsewhere and a nearby gypsy camp becomes a flashpoint as the investigation tightens.

When Pascoe's dentist becomes convinced a violent scene in an adult film shows a real assault, Dalziel dismisses it as fantasy. A vandalised cinema, a dead proprietor and vanished film stock force the pair to take a hard look at the Calliope Club and the town's respectable faces.

Taking leave while Pascoe is on honeymoon, Dalziel drifts into the orbit of the eccentric Fielding family after a funeral and a flood strand him at their half finished country hotel. Embezzlement, unexplained deaths and a seductive widow soon turn his holiday into a very damp busman's holiday.

A weekend reunion turns to horror when Pascoe arrives at a friend's cottage and finds a triple murder scene. As Dalziel joins the case, old loyalties, past love affairs and small village tensions make every assumption about the killings suspect.

Sent to a remote northern campus after a body is found in the snow, Dalziel and Pascoe pick their way through academic politics, old student radicalism and buried scandals, while Pascoe unexpectedly reconnects with a sharp tongued lecturer from his past.

When rugby veteran Connie Connon comes home concussed from a match and wakes to find his wife dead in front of the television, Dalziel and Pascoe uncover grudges, secrets and jealousies festering around the local club and the Connon marriage.