The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 22 books · 1970 to 2009 · Set in the fictional Mid-Yorkshire, England

Reginald Hill

Crime and mysteryPolice procedural

Superintendent Andy Dalziel, crude, shrewd and enormous, and his educated junior Peter Pascoe police Mid-Yorkshire across more than thirty years, with Sergeant Edgar Wield and Pascoe’s wife Ellie close behind.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. The novellas and Hill’s other series are left out. US titles differ for the last books: The Death of Dalziel is Death Comes for the Fat Man, and A Cure for All Diseases is The Price of Butcher’s Meat.

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Dalziel and Pascoe

22 books · Set in the fictional Mid-Yorkshire, EnglandPolice procedural
  1. 1A Clubbable Woman1970With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  2. 2An Advancement of Learning1971With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Ruling Passion1973With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  4. 4An April Shroud1975With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  5. 5A Pinch of Snuff1978With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  6. 6A Killing Kindness1980With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  7. 7Deadheads1983With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  8. 8Exit Lines1984With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Child’s Play1987With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  10. 10Underworld1988With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  11. 11Bones and Silence1990With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  12. 12Recalled to Life1992With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  13. 13Pictures of Perfection1994With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  14. 14The Wood Beyond1996With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  15. 15On Beulah Height1998With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  16. 16Arms and the Women2000With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  17. 17Dialogues of the Dead2002With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  18. 18Death’s Jest-Book2002With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  19. 19Good Morning, Midnight2004With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  20. 20The Death of Dalziel2007With Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  21. 21A Cure for All Diseases2008With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon
  22. 22Midnight Fugue2009With Andy Dalziel and Peter PascoeBuy on Amazon

Characters

8 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Mid-Yorkshire CID