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Good Morning, Midnight: Dalziel and Pascoe, Book 21

By: Reginald Hill
Narrated by: Shaun Dooley
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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... Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Suspense
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I love the Dalziel and Pascoe books and was looking forward to collecting them as audiobooks to listen to whilst travelling. However here I find I am always waiting for the next mispronounced word - and there are quite a lot of them. Some may be due to an accent variation but most people don't put bucks into buckcases, luck into mirrors or phush phushchairs rather than 'pooshchairs'. There has been so much of this in the first hour that it has spoilt the book for me. Such a shame.

Good book irritatingly read.

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As I Said, "Bloody marvellous!"

I do not need the other ten words to express my opinion.....

Bloody marvellous!

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I love the world of Daziel and Pascoe; all the characters are so well judged, so distinctive and the plot sufficiently complex to keep you guessing.

Gripping

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When Pal McIver commits suicide in a particularly elaborate way, it mirrors exactly the death of his father some ten years earlier. But were both deaths suicide? Or was one or the other – or both – murder? Dalziel had been involved in the ealrier investigation but not Pascoe, and now Pascoe finds that Dalziel seems to be obstructing the investigation into the second, possibly because of his friendship (or is it more?) with the enigmatic Kay Kafka, wife of the elder Pal and (wicked?) stepmother of the younger.

One of his more convoluted plots that touches on the big news story of the time – the war in Iraq – and involves some murky spy stuff of both the American and the British kind. Not one of my favourites, although as always with Hill, there’s much to enjoy in the interaction between the regulars, and there are some excellent one-off characters like the aforementioned Kay. I’ve read it twice now and the plot doesn’t seem to stay in my mind – too much going on in it, I think! Enjoyable, though, and moves Hat’s story on from the previous two books.

Very tired of the constant chopping and changing of narrator in this series. I wish they'd get Colin Buchanan to do the ones he's missed.

Convoluted but entertaining...

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As ever the star of the novel is the fat man and his dialogue. The plot was rather strained but the professionalism of the writing and narration kept me interested.

Complicated

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