Winner of the 1990 CWA Gold Dagger Award. Yorkshire police superintendent Andy Dalziel witnesses a man pointing a gun at a woman through his kitchen window, but when he arrives on the scene, the woman is dead and both male suspects insist she was trying to shoot herself. Meanwhile, Pascoe receives anonymous letters from a woman predicting her own suicide, and Dalziel is persuaded to play God in a large outdoor production of the medieval York Mystery plays. The three story threads intertwine in the eleventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel.

Dalziel plays God while a silent woman foretells her own death — British crime fiction at its finest