Peter Turnbull
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a London hotel leads Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team to a burial site containing the charred bones of two men. Their investigation quickly leads them into a dark and brutal world, but who were the dead men and how did they meet their fate? To solve the case Vicary must uncover what happened at a notorious gangland garden party from which two men never returned .
2) Cold wrath
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a hot summer morning, Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York, on his way to a few hours' work as an under gardener at The Grange. But when he arrives, he finds his employer slumped in an armchair in the drawing room, a bullet wound on his forehead. Miles' employer was a secretive and reclusive man who kept his employees and neighbours at a distance. Who was Anthony Garrett, and who are the three young, identical-looking...
3) Two way cut
Author
Series
P Division ; 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"This deftly written procedural realistically captures the life of modern Glasgow and the men who keep law and order there. A young cop on the beat finds a body laid out, with the head hacked off and neatly left on the chest of the torso. No clues to the victim's identity are available, but several peculiar aspects of the crime cause the detectives of Glasgow's P Division to conclude that some sort of ritual murder has occurred. For one thing, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A skeleton-filled grave leads DCI Hennessey's team back to the aftermath of the English Civil War in this gripping mystery - When a deep grave containing five skeletons is found in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York police station are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over twenty years, and the resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have...
6) Cold case
Author
Series
Maurice Mundy ; 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Introducing Maurice Mundy, retired detective constable at the Met; a maverick who's back and about to raise the temperature on a ten-year-old unsolved murder of a young boy. Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard's Cold Case Review Team. Ten years ago a twelve-year-old boy was murdered, his body left floating in a nearby pond. A second look at the case soon reveals that a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the snow thaws on London's Hampstead Heath after a harsh winter, a ghoulish discovery is made that marks the start of a very dangerous case for Detective Inspector Harry Vicary and his team. A body of a man is found on top of a shallow grave containing the battered remains of a young woman. He appears to have frozen to death, but what is his connection to the remains below? Vicary's investigation leads him deep into London's criminal underworld....
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - When a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, it looks like a simple case of death by misadventure. On closer inspection, however, marks on her neck – and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe – point towards foul play. But as Hennessey and Yellich investigate, they discover that the victim may not have been all she seemed . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same location, each with a similar cause of death, the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard realise they must be linked. But how? Vicary and his team are drawn into a complex investigation - one which will take them from remote cottages in rural Hampshire to the dark world of inner city sex workers, child abuse within north London suburbia,...
10) Aftermath
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The latest Hennessey and Yellich mystery - When five corpses in various states of decomposition are found chained to the walls of a kitchen garden, Hennessey and Yellich quickly begin their investigation. The recently deceased owner of the house was housebound for the last twenty-five years, and so would have had no idea of the appalling crimes taking place yards away. At first, there doesn't seem to be much to go on – the victims appear to have...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
In later years, Ray Sussock would look upon the case as being perhaps the most satisfying of his career. He began with the case and he was there at the conclusion twenty-five years later. It would, though, be many months, if not years, before the sense of satisfaction, the sense of neatly rounding off, would settle in. At the time he found it harrowing, especially when the realization came. When the realization came he had woken up. Screaming. So...
17) Deathtrap
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
George Hennessey has always been proud of being a DCI in the Vale of York. Until, that is, the body of an ambitious newshound is discovered, and his apparent suicide opens a can of worms which leads to a host of unsolved murders from the past.
18) Once a biker
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a deathbed confession leads to the reopening of a murder case, it doesnt bode well that both victims were members of a bikers gang twenty years ago. As Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team try to investigate, it seems the vow of silence is as strong as ever. And when an ex-member is found murdered, it seems that someone is determined to keep old secrets dead and buried ...
19) In vino veritas
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Andrew "Big Andy" Cragg's drunken disclosure in a West London pub to an undercover Scotland Yard detective that he was once party to the disposal of the body of a murder victim sets a sinister and disturbing chain of events in motion for Harry Vicary and his team. A body is found exactly where Andrew Cragg said it would be, and the subsequent investigation plunges Vicary into a labyrinth world of contract killings, witness intimidation and large-scale...