Ruling Passion Author:Reginald Hill Police Sergeant Peter Pascoe and his girl, Eleanor Soper, had been invited to spend a September weekend with old friends of his at their cottage in the town of Thornton Lacey. They got to the cottage just before nine o'clock. The cottage curtains were all still drawn and when Pascoe knocked there was no answer. Pascoe tried the front door. It wa... more »sn't locked, and he went in. The bodies of two men were lying on the dining room floor.« less