Arms And The Women

by Reginald Hill

Part of Dalziel & Pascoe, book 18

First published 2001

Detective Peter Pascoe faces his worst nightmare when an unknown assailant attempts to kidnap his wife Ellie. Days later, Ellie's friend Daphne Alderman is attacked by a man prowling near the Pascoe home. Pascoe and his partner Andy Dalziel assume the crimes connect to one of Peter's police cases. They send Ellie and daughter Rosie to a safe house with Daphne, protected by Detective Constable Shirley Novello. But Novello starts questioning their theory. What if the stalker targets this family because of Ellie, not Peter? While Dalziel and Pascoe chase leads in one direction, Novello follows her instincts in another. Both investigations converge at a crumbling mansion along the Yorkshire coast, where the truth behind the attacks waits to emerge.

Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, detective

Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family

Setting: Yorkshire

Period: 20th-century

496 pages · Paperback · HarperCollinsPublishers

Content warnings: kidnapping

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