Pictures of Perfection

Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. It's the Day of Reckoning in the village of Enscombe, a two-day celebration among locals to feast and to pay old debts. When Enscombe's constable vanishes, it's time for Dalziel and Pascoe to upend the party. At first they're confronted with what appear to be only niggling hiccups in the enclave: break-ins, a vicar with a lustful bent, and family feuds. But as Enscombe's past comes into focus, the investigators begin to see a bigger crack in the picture-perfect village. Now, in this season when misdeeds must not go unpunished, reckoning will indeed be paid. And it may already be too late for Dalziel and Pascoe to change the course of local history. series in any order.