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Dalziel & Pascoe Books in Order

Dalziel & Pascoe by Reginald Hill contains 27 books, published between 1970 and 2022. The first book is A Clubbable Woman (1970) and the newest is Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
27
Published
1970–2022
Confirmed
2 of 27 titles
Pages on record
7,124 in 18 of 27 books
Reading time
119–178 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,124 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 18 of 27 titles with a page count on record.

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Dalziel & Pascoe is a police procedural series by Reginald Hill, pairing Andrew Dalziel with Peter Pascoe on murder investigations in England. A Clubbable Woman (1970) opens the run, and 27 catalogued books follow it, among them Ruling Passion (1973), An April Shroud (1975), A Killing Kindness (1980) and Deadheads (1983). Story collections such as Pascoe's Ghost (1979) and Asking for the Moon (1996) sit inside the sequence, which closes with a 2022 title.

How many Dalziel & Pascoe books are there?

Dalziel & Pascoe has 27 books, released between 1970 and 2022.

Dalziel & Pascoe Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 27 Dalziel & Pascoe books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill, book 1 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1970)
  2. Cover of An Advancement of Learning by Reginald Hill, book 2 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1971)
  3. Cover of Ruling Passion by Reginald Hill, book 3 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1973)
  4. Cover of A Killing Kindness by Reginald Hill, book 6 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1980)
  5. Cover of Deadheads by Reginald Hill, book 7 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1983)
  6. Cover of Child's Play by Reginald Hill, book 9 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1986)
  7. Cover of Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill, book 11 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1990)
  8. Cover of One Small Step by Reginald Hill, book 12 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1990)
  9. Cover of Recalled to Life by Reginald Hill, book 13 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1992)
  10. Cover of Pictures of Perfection by Reginald Hill, book 14 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1994)
  11. Cover of The Wood Beyond by Reginald Hill, book 15 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1995)
  12. Cover of On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill, book 16 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1998)
  13. Cover of Arms and the Women by Reginald Hill, book 17 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (1999)
  14. Cover of Dialogues of the Dead by Reginald Hill, book 18 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (2001)
  15. Cover of Death's Jest-Book by Reginald Hill, book 19 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (2002)
  16. Cover of Good Morning, Midnight by Reginald Hill, book 20 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (2004)
  17. Cover of Death Comes for the Fat Man / The Death of Dalziel by Reginald Hill, book 21 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (2007)
  18. Cover of A Cure for All Diseases / The Price of Butcher's Meat by Reginald Hill, book 23 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series
  19. Cover of Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill, book 24 of the Dalziel & Pascoe series (2009)
  1. 1
    A Clubbable Woman1970 · confirmed 2/4
    1970–
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  2. 1
    Pascoe's Ghost1979 · confirmed 2/4
    1979–
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  3. 2
    An Advancement of Learning1971 · confirmed 2/4
    1971–
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  4. 2
    Asking for the Moon1996 · 323 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1996323
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  5. 3
    Ruling Passion1973 · 291 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1973291
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  6. 3
    Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer2022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022–
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  7. 4
    An April Shroud1975 · 260 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1975260
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  8. 5
    A Pinch of Snuff1978 · 327 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978327
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  9. 6
    A Killing Kindness1980 · confirmed 2/4
    1980–
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  10. 7
    Deadheads1983 · confirmed 2/4
    1983–
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  11. 8
    Exit Lines1984 · 291 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1984291
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  12. 9
    Child's Play1986 · confirmed 2/4
    1986–
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  13. 10
    Under World1988 · 326 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988326
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  14. 11
    Bones and Silence1990 · 443 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990443
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  15. 12
    One Small Step1990 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990112
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  16. 13
    Recalled to Life1992 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992400
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  17. 14
    Pictures of Perfection1994 · 352 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994352
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  18. 15
    The Wood Beyond1995 · 439 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995439
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  19. 16
    On Beulah Height1998 · 560 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998560
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  20. 17
    Arms and the Women1999 · 512 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1999512
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  21. 18
    Dialogues of the Dead2001 · 528 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001528
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  22. 19
    Death's Jest-Book2002 · 560 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002560
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  23. 20
    Good Morning, Midnight2004 · 433 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2004433
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  24. 21
    Death Comes for the Fat Man / The Death of Dalziel2007 · 448 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007448
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  25. 22
    The Last National Service Man2007 · confirmed 3/4
    2007–
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  26. 23
    A Cure for All Diseases / The Price of Butcher's Meat2008 · 519 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008519
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  27. 24
    Midnight Fugue2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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Dalziel & Pascoe Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Dalziel & Pascoe books run from A Clubbable Woman (1970) to Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Dalziel & Pascoe in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Dalziel & Pascoe books in order?

You should read the Dalziel & Pascoe books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Dalziel & Pascoe book also stands alone.

Where to start with Dalziel & Pascoe

Start with A Clubbable Woman (1970), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dalziel & Pascoe book?

Dalziel and Pascoe Hunt the Christmas Killer (2022) is the newest Dalziel & Pascoe book released so far.

Is there a new Dalziel & Pascoe book coming?

No next Dalziel & Pascoe book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Dalziel & Pascoe at a glance

Paused
No new Dalziel & Pascoe title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Dalziel & Pascoe books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,124 pages across the 18 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 416 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dalziel & Pascoe books, 8 of 27, were published in the 1990s.

What the Dalziel & Pascoe books are about

22 of the 27 Dalziel & Pascoe books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: andrew dalziel (fictitious character) is tagged on 18 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Reginald Hill

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.