Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Peter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them dead and the missing fourth a prime suspect in the eyes of the local police. They want his cooperation. Superintendent Andy Dalziel wants him back in Yorkshire where a string of unsolved burglaries look like turning nasty. Perhaps it's all to much for Pascoe. As events unfold, the two cases are getting jumbled in his mind...

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion. A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007313044 (June, 2009), 368 p., £7.99.

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
The Third Book in the Dalziel & Pascoe Series
From Yorkshire to Thornton Lacey is only a morning's drive, but for Peter Pascoe it's a journey into the past, a chance to kick back, Big Chill-style, with his closest friends from college. On arrival, though, he finds not a warm welcome but a grisly triple-murder, with one of his oldest mates on tap as the chief suspect.

Still something of a newbie on the police force, Pascoe is a bit out of his depth and he is most certainly out of his jurisdiction, but the local cops aren't much interested in Pascoe's windy hunches about his friends' complex relationships; the way they see it, they've got their man.

It's all a misery for Pascoe until the (reluctant) Dalziel and the (increasingly important) Ellie turn up to add their two pence -- and, just as critically, to make it clear that this trio will be well worth watching.

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion. Felony & Mayhem, ISBN 193460917X (November, 2008), 304 p., $14.95.

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
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...

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion. A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN 0586072608 (January, 2004), 388 p., £6.99.

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
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...

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion. Featuring Dalziel & Pascoe. HarperCollins, ISBN 0006499902 (February, 1997), 304 p., £5.99 (?).

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
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 position: 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.

Reginald Hill: Ruling Passion. A Dalziel / Pascoe Mystery. Dell, ISBN 0440168899 (August, 1990), 336 p., $6.99.