Reginald Hill

A Killing Kindness


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      REGINALD HILL

      A KILLING KINDNESS

      A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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      Harper An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF

      First published in Great Britain by

      HarperCollinsPublishers 1980

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Copyright © Reginald Hill 1980

      Reginald Hill asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN 9780586072516

      Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN 9780007370252

      Version: 2015-06-18

       For Dan and Pat

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Keep Reading

       About the Author

      Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       Epigraph

      The man that lays his hand upon a woman,

      Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch

      Whom ’twere gross flattery to name a coward.

      JOHN TOBIN: The Honeymoon

       … it was green, all green, all over me, choking, the water, then boiling at first, and roaring, and seething, till all settled down, cooling, clearing, and my sight up drifting with the few last bubbles, till through the glassy water I see the sky clearly, and the sun bright as a lemon, and birds with wings wide as a windmill’s sails slowly drifting round it, and over the bank’s rim small dark faces peering, timid as beasts at their watering, nostrils sniffing danger and shy eyes bright and wary, till a current turns me over, and I drift, and still am drifting, and …

       What the hell’s going on here! Stop it! This is sick …

       Please. Oh God! Be careful you’ll …

      Jack! No!