Midnight Fugue
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On Sale:
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24/06/2010
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Formats:
Paperback
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It starts with a phone call asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story.
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.
A tabloid hack with some awkward questions about an ambitious MP′s father. The honourable member′s secretary who shares his suspicions. The ruthless entrepreneur in question -- and the two henchmen out to make sure the past stays in the past.
Four stories, two mismatched detectives trying to figure it all out, and 24 hours in which to do it: Dalziel and Pascoe are about to learn the hard way exactly just how much difference a day makes ...
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Author Extras
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Exit Lines
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...
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Bones and Silence
When Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a bizarre murder across the street from his own back garden, he is quite sure he knows who the culprit is. After all, he′s seen him with his own eyes. But what exactly does he see? And is he mistaken? Peter Pascoe certainly thinks...
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The Wood Beyond
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-...
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If Cooks Could Kill
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With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favorite Italian restaurant. Soon Connie takes more interest in a...
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Cook's Night Out
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Foodie Angie Amalfi has decided to make her culinary name by creating the perfect chocolate confection: angelinas. Donating her delicious rejects to the Random Acts of Kindness Mission in San Francisco, Angie meets the jittery minister in charge. Soon she volunteers to help organize their first...
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