Ruling Passion is a crime

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill is an English crime writer, and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.- Biography :...

, the third novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe

Dalziel and Pascoe consist of Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe....

 series. The novel opens with Detective Peter Pascoe arriving at what should have been a reunion of old friends. Instead he walks in on the scene of a grisly triple-murder. To solve the crime, Pascoe needs both his superior officer, Andy Dalziel and his romantic partner -- and Dalziel's feminist antagonist -- Elli.

Publication history

• 1973, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN 0002317109, Pub date April 1973, Hardback
• 1987, London: Harper Collins ISBN 0586072608
• 2008, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press
  Felony & Mayhem Press
  Felony & Mayhem Press is an American book publisher which specializes in re-issues of out-of-print mystery novels, first paperback editions of books previously published in hardcover, and U.S. editions of books that initially came out overseas...
  
  ISBN 978-1-934609-17-0 , Pub date September 2008.