Midnight Fugue

By: Reginald Hill

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

It starts with a phone call to Superintendent Dalziel from an old friend asking for help. But where it ends is a very different story.

Gina Wolfe has come to Mid-Yorkshire in search of her missing husband, believed dead. Her fiance, Commander Mick Purdy of the Met, thinks Dalziel should be able to take care of the job.

What none of them realize is how events set in motion decades ago will come to a violent head on this otherwise ordinary summer's day.

©2009 Rginald Hill (P)2009 WF Howes Ltd

"The day before Monday."

Great fun. Dalziel gets involved in the search for a man, missing, believed dead, for almost seven years. Written in carefully annotated time strips, the Fat Man in a more introspective form than usual. Narration is by Jonathan Keeble with individual voicing for all of the characters: a fine performance.

The books in Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series are always a pleasure to read, and always different, too. Midnight Fugue, number 24, is no exception. Recommended

Another top tier effort in the Dalziel and Pascoe

Another top tier effort in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. I'm revisiting this series via audible books and had some difficulty with one of the earlier narrators, however Jonathan Keeble's reading made the book very enjoyable. He made it easy to differentiate between characters and did so without his voice getting so hi or low that I had to adjust the volume. After a serious concussion from an explosion, Dalziel returns to work struggling to bring himself up to speed. By chance he finds himself at the centre of a puzzle that develops into a murder investigation with one of his officers seriously assaulted. Despite Pascoe's efforts to assume control and limit Dalziel's activities by regularly waving the rule book Andy manages to solve the crime while also getting himself back up to speed with the job. I'm also enjoying Reginald Hill's other books outside this series.

Another remarkable visit with Andy Dalziel

Hill is simply amazing. Each novel in this series is an adventure in shifting perspective and innovative technique yet the characters remain as comfortable as a well-loved pair of Nike trainers. I hope Mr. Hill lives - and writes - forever!

Meh......rather cliched

This is my first Dalziel and Pascoe story, and I think it stands on its own and I didn't feel I needed to have read the others beforehand. And I'm glad I didn't, I guess, because they seem rather cliched. The characters and the story aren't bad, but not terribly novel or interesting either......the best thing about the book was the creation of the overlapping time frames to illustrate how everything happened in a single day.

Probably good for fans of these characters, but I thought it was just OK......I certainly didn't like it as much as I enjoyed The Woodcutter.

Too urban

I do not like gangster mysteries. I guess I like my mysteries driven by other things besides urban gangsters, because, like the stupid vampire mysteries , it is too easy to throw in any resolution to problem and not develop characters.
I do not like any of the characters in this book.