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The discovery of hidden 'dirty' letters, discussion of naked foreplay at the bedroom window and the unearthing of the murder weapon during the search for a missing eight-year-old boy make for the final pieces of the puzzle. However, with the murder weapon nowhere to be found, evidence of the killer's involvement is rather thin on the ground. Being vice-president of the rugby club himself, Dalziel decides to ruffle a few feathers and find out who had enough of a motive to want to kill her.

Wetherton Rugby Club's golden boy, Sam Connon, wakes up after arriving at home with a hangover, to find his wife, Mary, dead in the armchair. Peter Pascoe as the pair team up for the very first time to investigate a serious murder case.

It’s a book I return to when I can’t decide if I actually like being human.Episodes Series 1 (1996) No.ĭalziel is forced to accept new recruit Sgt. What stays with me most is the raw, simple honesty of her sadness about her own death. It’s part philosophy, part memoir, part interrogation into the medical and legal system’s brutal insistence on the undignified extension of life. It’s a book that reminds me that we made the unfair systems we live in and that there might be better options out there.Ĭory Taylor died in 2016 from cancer but before she did, she wrote this brilliant, heartfelt, pragmatic, clear-eyed memoir about the end of life and the difficulty of talking about it. It deals beautifully in ambiguities, how language shapes thinking and culture, how capitalism relies on inequality and suffering in order to function, and how even the noblest ideals can calcify into dogma. Le Guin’s masterpiece is about a self-isolated utopian anarchist society on a moon called Anarres and a physicist, Shevek, who wants to make peace and exchange ideas with the capitalist nation of A-Io on a neighbouring planet. Keret writes hilariously and painfully about hapless nobodies, weirdos, murderers, depression, suicide, and PTSD from compulsory service in the Israel Defence Forces. This short-story collection made a huge impression on me at university because of its fresh, strong, plain-talking voice.