A fantastic mystery short story collection, the perfect Christmas gift for crime fiction lovers
Reginald Hill Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Tento anglický autor byl známý svými pohlcujícími příběhy z žánru detektivky. Jeho díla se často vyznačují hlubokým psychologickým vhledem do postav a složitými zápletkami. Vytvořil rozsáhlou sérii románů sledujících osudy yorkshirských detektivů, pro které je dodnes ceněn. Kromě toho se věnoval i dalším žánrům, včetně povídek a hororových příběhů, čímž prokázal svou literární všestrannost.







Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer & Other Stories
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
A Christmassy crime collection - the perfect gift this winter!
Set in the seaside resort of Sandytown, the story follows Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel as he navigates his recovery from a bomb blast while investigating a local murder. The narrative intertwines Dalziel's personal challenges with the complexities of the case, creating a rich and engaging mystery. Renowned for its depth and intrigue, this novel showcases Reginald Hill's masterful storytelling, promising a deeply satisfying experience for mystery enthusiasts.
Oscar Boswell und Jack Wardle laden ein – zu besinnlichen Festtagen auf dem Landsitz Dingley Dell. Eine Dickens‘sche Weihnacht soll es geben, mit allem, was dazugehört: Gänsebraten und Pastete, Tee und Punsch am offenen Kamin, Eislaufen und Schneewandern, ein viktorianischer Kostümball ... Eine bunte Gesellschaft findet sich im alten Landhaus ein, mit dabei die junge Engländerin Arabella Allen. Als diese jedoch bei einer Erkundungstour durchs Haus auf eine Leiche stößt, wird klar, dass die besinnliche Stimmung trügt. Ein Schneesturm, der den Landsitz von der Außenwelt abschneidet, und das mysteriöse Verschwinden des Hausherrns tun ihr Übriges. Schon bald gerät die Dickens‘sche Weihnacht zum mörderischen Versteckspiel ... Mit Witz und Wärme erzählt der britische Krimiautor Reginald Hill eine tödliche Weihnachtsgeschichte – englisch wie Christmas Pudding, behaglich wie ein knisterndes Kaminfeuer und explosiv wie der Lauf eines Vorderladers. »Nur wenige Krimiautoren haben die Gaben von Hill: außergewöhnliche Intelligenz, bestechender Humor und einen Stil, der Eleganz und Anmut miteinander verbindet.« DONNA LEON
`Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times
Midnight Fugue
- 425 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
Gina Wolfe is searching for her missing husband, believed dead, and thinks Superintendent Dalziel can help. What neither realize is that there are others on the same trail. Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way exactly just how much difference a day makes.
The woodcutter
- 519 stránek
- 19 hodin čtení
A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller -- from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series
Další ze spletitých případů, které musí vyřešit vtipný a nápaditý Joe Sixsmith, jenž se s vervou věnuje profesi detektiva i přes nesouhlas své starostlivé tetičky Mirabelle. V detektivním příběhu známého britského autora nechybí drogy, brutální vraždy, napětí, ale ani humorné situace.
501 filmov, ktoré musíte vidieť
- 544 stránek
- 20 hodin čtení
Publikácia 501 filmov, ktoré musíte vidieť patrí do kategórie kníh, ktoré vždy vyvolajú diskusiu o výbere. V tomto prípade renomovaní autori vyberali zo žánrov akčného, dobrodružného a historického filmu, pokračovali komédiou, drámou, hororom a muzikálom, za ktorými nasledovali romantický film, science fiction a fantasy, detektívka a triler. Na záver ponúkli výber z toho najlepšieho v histórii vojnového filmu a westernu. Priblížili prekvapujúce úspechy na poli špeciálnych efektov v časoch pred a po zavedení počítačových efektov, vynikajúce kinematografické experimenty, šokujúce výkony, debuty i labutie piesne. Prečítajte si našu knihu, pozrite si opísané filmy a utvorte si na ne vlastný názor.
Dalziel & Pascoe Novel: Midnight Fugue
- 362 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller.
An April Shroud
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding's ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.
Im Dorf Illthwaite wird das Leben durch das Erscheinen von Sam Flood, einer Australierin mit einer bewegten Familiengeschichte, und Miguel Madero, einem ehemaligen Priester auf der Suche nach seinen Wurzeln, erschüttert. Beide sind in Gefahr, während sie ein dunkles Geheimnis des Dorfes und des Fremdenhauses aufdecken.
Řev motýlů
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
V parném létě umí být Luton pěkně mrtvým městem, a jediný pohyb tak lze vidět jen na hřišti prominentního golfového klubu Royal Hoo. Zdá se však, že prvotřídní pověst „Hoo“ je v ohrožení. Jeden z předních členů klubu, Chris Porphyry, je totiž nařčen z podvádění. Obrátí se proto na místní soukromé očko, Joea Sixsmithe, který je více než ochoten mu pomoci. Zanedlouho už je Joe na stopě konspiraci, která začíná ztraceným míčkem a končí vraždou…
A Cure for All Diseases
- 13 stránek
- 1 hodina čtení
After surviving a terrorist blast, Dalziel recovers in Sandytown, a quiet seaside resort. He befriends Charlotte Heywood, a psychologist who is researching the benefits of alternative therapy. After one of Sandytown's landowners is murdered, Pascoe is called in to investigate with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcomed support.
'The Death of Dalziel' is the return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the popular police duo. Dalziel is the victim of a huge Semtex explosion and it is up to DCI Peter Pascoe to seek justice for him.
A stunning psychological thriller set in Cumbria past and present, from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series.
Good Morning, Midnight
- 407 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
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. 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-Yorkershire? 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 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
Dalziel and Pascoe: Bones and Silence
- 416 stránek
- 15 hodin čtení
One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe on a chilling hunt for a killer and a potential suicide. A drunken Dalziel witnesses the murder that others insist is a tragic accident. Meanwhile the letters of an anonymous woman say she plans to kill herself in a spectacular way...unless Pascoe can find her first. Dalziel has been picked to play God in a local Mystery Play, but can he live up to his role by solving this puzzling psychological thriller...or unveiling the passions and perversions that lie hidden in the human heart?
Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel behauptet, einen Mord gesehen zu haben. Von seinem Küchenfenster aus, direkt im Haus gegenüber. Der vermeintliche Mörder, Philip Swain, bekannter Bauunternehmer der Stadt, behauptet hingegen, er habe lediglich versucht, seiner psychisch labilen Frau die Waffe zu entreißen, die diese auf sich richtete. Viel spricht für den Bauunternehmer, wenig für Dalziel, der Swain, diesen blasierten Landadeligen, ja noch nie leiden konnte, außerdem in besagter Nacht zugegeben nicht ganz nüchtern war, und natürlich war es dunkel. Aber all das stört Dalziel wenig. Fassungslos muß sein junger Kollege, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, miterleben, wie sein Chef sich hoffnungslos in den Fall Swain verrennt und sich zum Narren macht. Oder doch nicht?
Pictures of perfection
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Developers and tourists are causing unrest in the pretty village of Enscombe. And when a policeman goes missing, DCI Peter Pascoe gets worried. Andy Dalziel thinks he's just overreacting, but over two eventful days a pattern emerges, of lust and lying, of family feuds and ancient injuries, of frustrated desires and unbalanced minds. Finally, inevitably, everything comes to a bloody climax.
Death's jest-book
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
Three times Detective Chief Inspector Pascoe has wrongly accused Franny Roote. This time he's determined to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know ..
A Detective in Love
- 304 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
DCI Harriet Martens, nicknamed The Hard Detective, is in charge of the case involving the murder of Britain's number one tennis star, Bubbles Xinghara. But it's not the investigation that is about to explode her life, but the fact that she has fallen madly in love with a fellow officer.
This first in a series of anthologies sponsored by the British Crime Writers Association features 22 short stories with urban themes. The editor notes that he was looking for stories that offered imaginative takes on the familiar idea of big-city cr
Dalziel & Pascoe: Vermist op Beulah Height
- 439 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
Wanneer in een dorpje in Yorkshire een jong meisje verdwijnt, lijkt deze verdwijning veel op die van drie meisjes vijftien jaar daarvoor.
Dialogues of the Dead of Paronomania
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
A man drowns, another dies in a motorbike crash. The Mid-Yorkshire Gazette receives correspondence from someone claiming responsibility for the deaths. When a third murder takes place, Dalziel and Pascoe find themselves playing games.
Les chemins de l'enfer
- 478 stránek
- 17 hodin čtení
Personne n'a eu beaucoup de regrets lorsque les eaux d'un barrage ont englouti à tout jamais le village et la vallée de Dendale. Ce déluge n'aiderait-il pas les habitants, déplacés et relogés, à oublier la disparition de trois petites filles, et de ce Benny Lightfoot qu'on soupçonnait d'en être responsable ? Mais, quinze ans plus tard, tandis que la chaleur écrase le pays et que baisse le niveau de l'eau, une fillette disparaît à nouveau. Et les graffitis sur les murs proclament que Benny est de retour... Les inspecteurs Dalziel et Pascoe vont devoir explorer les secrets du passé, sans que les habitants semblent très pressés d'apporter leur concours... Comme s'ils savaient déjà que le chemin de la vérité ne peut mener qu'aux portes de l'enfer.
Singing the sadness
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Joe Sixsmith, Luton's biggest crime buster, heads off to Wales for a choral festival, but finds a burning house with a mysterious woman trapped inside. Along with a suspicious policeman, a drug-dealing student and local sabotage of the festival, Sixmith's detection technique adds to the confusion.
Arms and the women
- 496 stránek
- 18 hodin čtení
'Luminously written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
An advancement of learning
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
All is not well at Holm Coultram College. All is not well at Holm Coultram College: lecturers having affairs with students, witches' sabbaths, a body buried under a statue. Detective Superintendent Dalziel, despite his cynical view of academics, doesn't feel murder fits in here - let alone a rash of killings. But when he and DS Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at Holm Coultram College, that's exactly what they find...
Asking for the Moon
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
`Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift' Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
On Beulah Height
- 548 stránek
- 20 hodin čtení
Into thin air... Three little girls, one by one, had vanished from the farming village of Dendale. And Superintendent Andy Dalziel, a young detective in those days, never found their bodies--or the person who snatched them. Then the valley where Dendale stood was flooded to create a reservoir, and the town itself ceased to be . . . except in Dalziel's memory. Twelve years later, the threads of past and present are slowly winding into a chilling mosaic. A drought and dropping water table have brought Dendale's ruins into view. And a little girl has gone missing from a nearby village. Helped by Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, an older, fatter, and wiser Dalziel has a second chance to uncover the secrets of a drowned valley. And now the identity of a killer rests on what one child saw . . . and what another, now grown, fears with all her heart to remember . . . .
The Wood Beyond
- 500 stránek
- 18 hodin čtení
A ravaged wood, a man in uniform long dead -- this is not a World War One battlefield, but Wanwood House, a pharmaceutical research centre. Peter Pascoe attends his grandmother's funeral, and scattering her ashes leads him too into wartorn woods in search of his great-grandfather who fought and died in Passchendaele. Seeing the wood for the trees is the problem for Andy Dalziel when he finds himself fancying an animal rights activist, depite her possible complicity in a murderous assault and her appalling taste in whisky. A mind-bending puzzle leading us on the wild side of the pastoral.
Joe Sixsmith, přední lutonský soukromý detektiv, stojí samozřejmě na straně práva, problém však je, že právo mu vždy neoplácí stejnou mincí. Vánoce jsou svátky klidu a míru, ne však pro Joea. Je nucen obrátit se na snobskou právní kancelář o pomoc při vyřizování pojistného sporu, zde je však verbálně i fyzicky napaden společníky firmy. Když pak někdo začne právníky vraždit, ocitá se Joe vysoko na seznamu podezřelých. Reginald Hill, duchovní otec sehrané detektivní dvojice Dalziela a Pascoea, vytvořil novou postavu detektiva tmavé pleti, který se společně se svým černým kocourem Běloušem snaží potírat nepravosti v anglickém městečku Luton. Autor zde nechává naplno rozehrát svůj smysl pro humor a ironii a splétá napínavé dějové linie až do překvapivého závěru.
A Clubbable Woman
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
When Connon gets back from the rugby club, his wife is even more uncommunicative than usual. Connon goes upstairs to sleep for five hours. Then he discovers his wife has been beaten to death. Reginald Hill has won both the Golden Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award.
Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries - 14: Pictures of Perfection
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside such great mystery writers as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. In his latest novel his much-appreciated team of detectives, the incomparable Dalziel and Pascoe, find themselves in the pretty village of Enscombe, which is steadfastly trying -- though somewhat in vain -- to repel the advances of both tourists and developers. When a policeman is discovered missing, Pascoe is immediately worried, but Dalziel thinks he's overreacting... until the normally phlegmatic Sergeant Wield also shows signs of changing his first impressions of picture-perfect village life. Over two eventful days a new pattern emerges: one of lust and lying, family feuds and ancient injuries, frustrated desires and unbalanced minds. Finally, inevitably, everything comes to a bloody climax at the Squire's Reckoning, where the villagers gather each Lady Day to feast and pay old debts. Not even the three lawmen's presence can change the course of history... though one of them is to find the course of his own personal history changed forever.
Recalled to Life
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
Cissy Kohler has been in jail for murder for nearly thirty years and Detective Superintendent Dalziel is convinced she's guilty. But, investigating further, he soon finds his certainties being eroded and his reputation at stake.
Ze série Dalziel a Pascoe. Když se Andy Dalziel stane svědkem bizarní vraždy v bytě na protější straně ulice, je pevně přesvědčen, že ví, kdo je vrah. Viděl scénu na vlastní oči. Ale co vlastně viděl? Nemýlí se? Dalziel cítí, jak se kolem něho kupí pochybnosti, přibývá nešťastných náhod končících smrtí, ale důkazy nikde. Aby bylo hůř, dostává Dalziel anonymní dopisy, v nichž pisatel vyhrožuje sebevraždou. Dalziel jim nepřikládá mnoho důležitosti, protože je posedlý snahou třeba i vlastním objemným tělem prorazit zeď a najít pravdu, rozmetat spleť záhad. Pozornost mu odvádí jen sličná Eillen Chungová, mladá Euroasiatka, která v městském divadle Kemble chystá pouťové uvedení lidových her o Stvoření světa a hledá představitele Boha. Kdo jiný by se jí pro tuto roli mohl zalíbit víc než Andy? Všechno ví, nic mu neujde, paličatě, ale spravedlivě trestá hříšníky… Jen jednou se zmýlí. Bohužel osudově.
Death of a Dormouse
- 363 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in a car accident, she retreats even further into her cocoon of ignorance and incuriosity. But staying there isn't an option; her husband apparently died broke, and Trudi's best hope lies in suing the company responsible for his death. And that means asking what her husband was doing on a remote stretch of Yorkshire road. Even the painful knowledge that a woman was involved only leads to larger, more baffling questions. Who was Eric Blair, and why did Trent Adamson have his credit cards? Why had Trent suddenly quit his job? By the time Trudi's done unraveling the truth, her cozy refuge will be in ruins, but the quivering dormouse, too, will be history. Splendidly intricate and involving, and done with panache and wit - The Times of London Fiendish strangers emerge from the past in a fast-paced plot full of invention - The Guardian (UK) Blen
The Collaborators
- 448 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
From the bestselling author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, a superb novel of wartime passion, loyalty -- and betrayal When Janine Simonian was dragged roughly from her cell to face trial as a collaborator in the days of reckoning that followed the liberation of France, she refused to conceal her shaven skull from the jeering crowds that greeted her. Before the jury of former Resistance members pledged to extract vengeance on all who had connived in Nazi rule, Janine stood proudly in court -- and pleaded guilty to the charges. Why did so many French men and women collaborate with the Nazi occupation forces whilst others gave their lives in resistance? Were the motives of those who betrayed their country always selfish -- and those of the Resistance always noble? The Collaborators is a superb novel of conscience and betrayal that portrays the human dilemmas brought about by the Nazi occupation of France, and asks uncomfortable questions about the priorities of personal and national loyalty in time of war.
The Long Kill
- 251 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
When a hitman starts missing, it's time to retire. But soon Jaysmith begins to discover that settling down to the quiet life in the Lake District is not as easy as it seems.
Child's play
- 368 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of crime fiction' Observer Geraldine Lomas's son went missing in Italy during World War Two, but the eccentric old lady never accepted his death. Now she is dead, leaving the Lomas beer fortune to be divided between an animal rights organization, a fascist front and a services benevolent fund. As disgruntled relatives gather by the graveside, the funeral is interrupted by a middle-aged man in an Italian suit, who falls to his knees crying, 'Mama!' Andy Dalziel is preoccupied with the illegal book one of his sergeants is running on who is to be appointed as the new Chief Constable. But when a dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play!
There are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union
- 230 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Offers a collection of suspenseful stories peopled by a ghost in the pragmatic Soviet Union, a busybody author on a film set, a tormented soldier in France, and other unusual characters
Signet Mystery: An April Shroud
- 254 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
While Pascoe is away on his honeymoon, Dalziel takes a vacation that leaves him stranded at a bizarre country manor inhabited by murder and a most unusual group of suspects
Traitors Blood
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
British Intelligence ensures that before Antonio Lemuel Ernest Sebastian Stanhope-Swift, a terminally ill criminal mastermind, can see his daughter, he must first assassinate a well-known murderer, traitor, and defector--his father
Exit lines
- 304 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
Another excellent Dalziel and Pascoe story from the master of the British crime novel Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause. Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a drunken Superintendent Dalziel had been behind the wheel, the integrity of the entire Mid-Yorkshire constabulary is called into question. Helped by the bright but wayward DC Seymour, hindered by 'Maggie's Moron', the half-witted Constable Hector, Peter Pascoe enters the twilight and vulnerable world of the senior citizen - to discover that the beckoning darkness at the end of the tunnel holds few comforts.
Ze série Dalziel a Pascoe V příběhu Reginalda Hilla, považovaného v anglicky psané literatuře za špičku mezi autory kriminálního žánru, se na scénu znovu vrací dvojice policistů z hrabství Yorkshire, známá i ze seriálu ČT – Dalziel a Pascoe… Po prologu, kdy se čtenář stane svědkem toho, jak malý Patrick Alderman zaviní osudný srdeční infarkt své tety Florence, se děj příběhu posouvá o dvacet let dál. Jsme svědky Patrickova profesního růstu, který je však kalen podivnými událostmi. Vraždí Patrick ty, kdož mu stojí v cestě na vrchol? Jeho šéf, Dick Elgood, je přesvědčen, že tomu tak je, a se svým podezřením se svěří inspektoru Pascoeovi. Čím více se Pascoe noří do Patrickovy minulosti, tím více podezřelých úmrtí nachází. Takřka každý, kdo stál tomuto muži jakýmkoli způsobem v cestě, se stal obětí nějaké tragické nehody. A nyní se zdá, že je na řadě právě Elgood… Kniha Uschlé květy je pokládána za jedno z nejtemněji laděných a současně i nejpozoruhodnějších Hillových děl.
A killing kindness
- 303 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
'Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill's best' Financial Times When Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway. If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant. Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums -- it's all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him. And meanwhile the Choker strikes again -- and again!
Der Würger von Yorkshire
- 203 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
Noch ein Tod in Venedig
- 206 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
A pinch of snuff : a Dalziel and Pascoe novel
- 287 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
'Deplorably readable' Observer Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club - once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered. Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target...
Ruling Passion
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
From Yorkshire to the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, the distance will close off part of his life forever. Motoring down for a reunion with old friends, he arrives to find not a welcome but a grisly triple murder. Out of his jurisdiction, Pascoe is in an untenable one of his oldest friends is wanted for murder, his boss is ordering him back to Yorkshire, and his instincts are telling him that the local constabulary will never suspect that the crime's true motive lies not in the obvious places, but in the unexplored zones of passion within a twisted heart.










































