The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a new psychological thriller Gilbert Gildenhall, Bishop of Mid-Yorkshire, receives a letter which parodies Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet 'How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways!' This seriously worries his wife, but the bishop himself is dismissive. Superintendent Dalziel agrees with him, not seeing the letter as a threat. When, on the morning of Remembrance Sunday, the bishop's body is found at the foot of the city's cenotaph, a deeper mystery begins to unfold. Gradually, it emerges that three other members of a subcommittee of the Mid-Yorkshire InterFaith Forum which the bishop chaired have also received hate mail. One is Muslim, another is Jewish, the last is a Pagan. Most likely, the perpetrator is someone who has suffered bereavement or disfigurement in one of the world's recent conflicts, and spreads blame among all religions evenly. But where to start? Dalziel and Pascoe must find the person hell-bent on retribution fast -- as the situation threatens to get even more complicated!
- ISBN10 0007343914
- ISBN13 9780007343911
- Publish Date 1 August 2013 (first published 30 August 2012)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk