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GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT
By Reginald Hill
(Doubleday Canada)
Reginald Hill's famed police duo Dalziel and Pascoe just keep getting better with age.
The Yorkshire-based cops have starred in some 20 novels and been immortalized on the TV screen as well.
This time, a crime in their mid-Yorkshire precinct turns out to have ramifications in America and the Middle East, but Dalziel and Pascoe keep their attention focused on what happens in their own bailiwick.
A wealthy young man called Pal Maciver is found dead from a seemingly self-inflicted shotgun blast in a locked room in his mansion.
The man's father had been found dead in exactly the same way 10 years earlier, even to the same book of Emily Dickinson poems open on the desk.
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DCI Peter Pascoe is in charge of the investigation but his formidable superior, DS Andy Dalziel, keeps poking his nose in.
This makes Pascoe suspicious of Dalziel's motives since it turns out his boss has a soft spot for the woman in the case -- a possible suspect in a possible murder, the beautiful Kay Kafka, stepmother to Maciver Jr.
Filled with the usual interesting characters, snappy dialogue between Dalziel and Pascoe, and a plot which, although Byzantine at times, never becomes too obscure, the book is a must for Hill fans.