About the book

When Mary Dinwoodie was found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious night caller phoned the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet, and the career of the Yorkshire Choker was underway. For detectives Dalziel and Pascoe, the case is a nightmare with a solution that may depend on understanding the killer's macabre logic in trying to save his victims from a fate he thinks is worse than death.