Annal:1990 Dagger Award for Crime Novel

Bones and Silence: A Dalziel/Pascoe Mystery

Reginald Hill

• 1990 Gold Dagger
• 1991 Edgar–Novel nominee
• Score: 16.4

One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire’s police superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe on a chilling hunt for a killer and a potential suicide. A drunken Dalziel witnesses the murder that others insist is a tragic accident. Meanwhile the letters of an anonymous woman say she plans to kill herself in a spectacular way…unless Pascoe can find her first. Dalziel has been picked to play God in a local Mystery Play, but can he live up to his role by solving this puzzling psychological thriller…or unveiling the passions and perversions that lie hidden in the human heart?

The Late Candidate

Mike Phillips

• 1990 Silver Dagger
• Score: 8.4