Warren Clarke

While visiting old friends in rural Oxfordshire, Pascoe and a heavily pregnant Ellie are devastated when they discover the bodies of their hostess Rose and two of her guests all shot dead and another friend missing. Meanwhile in Yorkshire, Dalziel is investigating a series of burglaries, in which the thief leaves a bizarre calling card, and discovers a link with a flamboyant antiques trader.

Flamboyant businessman and Dalziel's old friend, Dick Elgood, accuses one of his employees, rose-enthusiast Patrick Alderman, of trying to murder him. When Pascoe starts to investigate, he discovers a trail of suspicious deaths in Alderman's past. Meanwhile, attending a police conference, Dalziel bumps into an old flame, but his fumbling attempts to rekindle the passion result in a bloody nose.

Dalziel becomes involved in a game of psychological one-up-manship, with a clever dangerous killer, who invents almost deliberately implausible alibis when his nearest and dearest begin to die around him.

The death of a young girl at a local fair is the third recent case of bizarre ritual murder for Dalziel and Pascoe. The serial killer is known as the Choker because of his habit of strangling his victims. As the murders continue, the police turn to a fortune-teller for clues. Meanwhile, Pascoe's home life is in disarray as he tries to come to terms with fatherhood.

After a drunken evening at a top country restaurant with his friend the bookmaker, Arnie Bancroft, and smooth-talking Major Kassell, Dalziel's car is involved in an accident. An elderly cyclist is knocked over and killed. But who was driving: Dalziel or Bancroft? When Dalziel is accused of drink-driving, Pascoe is forced to investigate his boss, putting their relationship under strain.

While Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Wield investigate an Animal Rights raid on Wanwood Pharmaceuticals, Pascoe's mind is on the death of his grandmother, Ada.

Peter Pascoe and Ellie Soper finally take the plunge and get married, so Dalziel decides to have a holiday of his own. That is until the son of his hostess goes missing and the discovery of a body in the lake. It's all left down to Dalziel to solve the pr

In this series, Peter Pascoe and his wife, Ellie, now heavily pregnant, drive to a picturesque Cotsworld village to visit friends, only to find them murdered; a charming serial killer haunts the sleepy Yorkshire town of Wetherton; pest control takes on a new meaning when Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious rose grower; and Dalziel finds himself under suspicion when an old man is killed by a drunken driver.

Season Ten sees the endearing duo travel to Amsterdam for a European Police Conference. Over the next six days Dalziel's life is turned upside down. Finding himself on the wrong side of the law, he becomes the prime suspect for the murder of a young British singer. Pascoe is determined to carry out his own investigation, adamant his boss is innocent. But why are the Dutch officers so keen to ensure Dalziel is charged with murder?

Four more two-part murder mysteries take the duo from a private zoo where they unearth a possible organ-trafficking racket, to a community hospital where patients are dying and staff are being attacked. And crimes of passion and chance occurrences bring a past murder case back to haunt Dalziel.