Asking For The Moon

by Reginald Hill

Part of Dalziel & Pascoe, book 16

First published 2004

Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe navigate four cases across time and space. Their partnership begins with a buried encounter from police files in The Last National Service Man. Pascoe confronts supernatural terror in Pascoe's Ghost, a tale that plunges into Edgar Allan Poe territory. Dalziel surprises everyone by developing an interest in the afterlife while investigating a graveyard case in Dalziel's Ghost. The collection leaps to 2010 for One Small Step, where the duo faces humanity's first lunar homicide. From Mid-Yorkshire's gritty streets to the mountains of the moon, these stories reveal how two very different men forged an unlikely partnership. Hill traces their relationship from initial meeting to final curtain, showing how they complement each other across decades of police work. The cases test both men's limits and reveal hidden depths in their characters.

Genres: mystery, crime, supernatural, detective

Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family

Setting: Mid-Yorkshire, Moon

Period: 1st-National-Service, 2010

Paperback · HarperCollinsPublishers

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