Mon, Oct 29, 2001
Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious death when 16 year-old Alec Jordan is found dead, floating in a lake. The post-mortem reveals a low level of alcohol in his system, but a high level of a tranquilizer known as ruffies, the date rape drug. For Dalziel, the case is particularly difficult. Ten years previously while in pursuit of suspect, Dalziel struck and killed Alec's mother with his car. Although Dalziel was found not to be responsible, the incident has always haunted him. The police focus on Alec's school mates, particularly Sophie Caine who is uncooperative and seems to have something to hide. The police believe that Alec was gay and pursue that line of investigation but the reason for his death is directly related to the night his mother died.
Mon, Nov 5, 2001
The murder of a young Asian woman brings Dalziel and Pascoe into the inner city right in the middle of a racially sensitive situation. With drugs, unemployment and the closure of the only teenage community project added to the mix this rapidly becomes an explosive situation for Dalziel to handle. As the rioting gets worse and the body count increases Dalziel comes under pressure to accept the racial motivation for the murders but he refuses and continues to dig deeper into the background of the local inhabitants. When a witness comes forward with some vital information, Dalziel sets a trap to catch the culprit. During interrogation the real motives for the murders are revealed together with the complex web of lies and deceit that preceeded them.
Mon, Nov 12, 2001
With DI Peter Pascoe away visiting his daughter and ex-wife in Florida, Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel investigates the murder of local solicitor David Brewer. At the request of an old friend, Sgt. Ted Lock, Andy makes his son, DS Mark Lock acting DI in Pascoe's absence. Brewer was found tied to a chair in his ransacked office and was severely beaten. The circumstances are virtually identical to a murder five years previously, one that Mark Lock had worked on. Brewer's wife Gillian was having an affair with local butcher Tom Piper and Andy is suspicious of a local doctor, Robert Silwood. It all becomes very complicated and personal for Andy when Ted Lock's recently deceased wife Fran, Mark's mother and one of Andy's old flames, is indirectly implicated in the case. She also leaves Andy a note revealing the true of identity of Mark's father. Pascoe unexpectedly returns from holiday and helps Andy deal with a second murder.
Mon, Nov 19, 2001
When the excavation at a construction site unearths a skeleton, Det. Supt. Dalziel and DI Pascoe have a murder to solve. The construction is at an abandoned coal mine that was the site of a major incident during the coal miners' strike in 1984. It also brings back memories for Andy, who had been posted there early in his career. It also brings him into contact with his his sister, Harriet Clifford, from whom he has been estranged for several years. Many in the community know Andy, and his return is anything but welcome. The skeletal remains are identified as those of George Briley, a police constable whose head had been bashed in some 15 to 20 years ago. Briley was working undercover during the strike but the police subsequently learned he was bent as well, having stolen, so it was believed, a large sum of the strikers' money. Peter Pascoe receives information that suggests Andy may have benefited in some way as well.