Good Morning Midnight: Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 21

Written by Reginald Hill

Narrated by Shaun Dooley

Like father like son… But heredity seems to have gone a gene too far when Pal Maciver’s suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors that of his father ten years earlier. In each case accusing fingers point towards Pal’s stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay Kafka. But she turns out to have a formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire’s own super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel. DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in charge of the investigation, finds he is constantly body-checked by his superior as he tries to disentangle the complex relationships of the Maciver family. At first these inquiries seem local and domestic. What really happened between Pal and his stepmother? And how has key witness and exotic hooker Dolores, Our Lady of Pain, contrived to disappear from the face of Mid-Yorkshire? Gradually, however, it becomes clear that the fall-out from Pal’s suicide spreads far beyond Yorkshire. To London, to America. Even to Iraq. But the emotional epicentre is firmly placed here in Mid-Yorkshire where Pascoe comes to learn that for some people the heart too is a locked room, and in there it is always midnight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books Audio
• Release date: Dec 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781470346041

Reginald Hill

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.

Reviews for Good Morning Midnight

[Mari Melting · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I’m very sad I am getting towards the end of the series.

[ectopicbrain · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Avery strange story revolving around the suicide, perhaps murder, of a local big shot. It seems like everyone is lying and everything is going around in circles while Pascoe pursues clusure.

This book was a bit too convoluted for me.

[thorold_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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 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?

[the7ken7petersen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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 it transpires that ...........No, I wont spoil your enjoyment!