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Bones and Silence
First edition cover
Author	Reginald Hill
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Dalziel and Pascoe series, #11
Genre	crime novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Publication date	22 March 1990
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	368p.
ISBN	0-00-232283-8
OCLC	20637300
Preceded by	Under World
Followed by	One Small Step

Bones and Silence is a 1990 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the eleventh novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The novel received the Gold Dagger Award in 1990 and was nominated for the Edgar Award.

Publication history

1990, London: Collins Crime Club ISBN 0-00-232283-8, Pub date 22 March 1990, Hardback

v t e Dalziel and Pascoe series by Reginald Hill
Novels	A Clubbable Woman (1970) An Advancement of Learning (1971) Ruling Passion (1973) An April Shroud (1975) A Pinch of Snuff (1978) A Killing Kindness (1980) Deadheads (1983) Exit Lines (1984) Child's Play (1987) Under World (1988) Bones and Silence (1990) One Small Step (1990) Recalled to Life (1992) Pictures of Perfection (1994) The Wood Beyond (1995) On Beulah Height (1998) Arms and the Women (1999) Dialogues of the Dead (2002) Death's Jest-Book (2003) Good Morning, Midnight (2004) The Death of Dalziel (2007) A Cure for All Diseases (2008) Midnight Fugue (2009)
Short stories	Auteur Theory (1987) Asking for the Moon (1996)
TV series	A Pinch of Snuff (1994) Dalziel and Pascoe Episodes

v t e Gold Dagger Award
1955–1959	The Little Walls by Winston Graham (1955) The Second Man by Edward Grierson (1956) The Colour of Murder by Julian Symons (1957) Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett (1958) Passage of Arms by Eric Ambler (1959)
1960–1969	The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson (1960) The Spoilt Kill by Mary Kelly (1961) When I Grow Rich by Joan Fleming (1962) The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) The Perfect Murder by H. R. F. Keating (1964) The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald (1965) A Long Way to Shiloh by Lionel Davidson (1966) Murder Against the Grain by Emma Lathen (1967) Skin Deep by Peter Dickinson (1968) A Pride of Heroes by Peter Dickinson (1969)
1970–1979	Young Man I Think You're Dying by Joan Fleming (1970) The Steam Pig by James H. McClure (1971) The Levanter by Eric Ambler (1972) The Defection of A. J. Lewinter by Robert Littell (1973) Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price (1974) The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (1975) A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell (1976) The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré (1977) The Chelsea Murders by Lionel Davidson (1978) Whip Hand by Dick Francis (1979)
1980–1989	The Murder of the Maharaja by H. R. F. Keating (1980) Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (1981) The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey (1982) Accidental Crimes by John Hutton (1983) The Twelfth Juror by B. M. Gill (1984) Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling (1985) Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell (1986) A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine (1987) Ratking by Michael Dibdin (1988) The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter (1989)
1990–1999	Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill (1990) King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine (1991) The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter (1992) Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell (1993) The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters (1994) The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid (1995) Popcorn by Ben Elton (1996) Black & Blue by Ian Rankin (1997) Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke (1998) A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson (1999)
2000–2009	Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (2000) Sidetracked by Henning Mankell (2001) The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza (2002) Fox Evil by Minette Walters (2003) Blacklist by Sara Paretsky (2004) Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason (2005) Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (2006) The Broken Shore by Peter Temple (2007) Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield (2008) A Whispered Name by William Brodrick (2009)
2010–present	Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (2010) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (2011) The Rage by Gene Kerrigan (2012) Dead Lions by Mick Herron (2013) This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash (2014) Life or Death by Michael Robotham (2015) Dodgers by Bill Beverly (2016) The Dry by Jane Harper (2017) The Liar by Steve Cavanagh (2018) The Puppet Show by M. W. Craven (2019) Good Girl Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (2020) We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (2021)

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