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A Harry Vicary Mystery: the second novel in a brand-new crime series set in London from the author of the Hennessey and Yellich mysteries. 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.
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 its roots in a legal dispute between two families going back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims been discovered too late to catch the killer?
The new Hennessey and Yellich mystery - A badly injured man is found lying in a street in the centre of York. When he dies without regaining consciousness, Hennessey and Yellich are brought in to investigate. Their inquiries reveal that the man was looking into the death of his brother - and the trail leads them to a vindictive divorc e, who is involved with a deeply suspect finance company with connections to other unsolved murders . . .
"Hennessey and Yellich, as always, are a joy to watch in action" - Booklist Yet again, floods have played havoc with the Yorkshire countryside and when one river changes its course, a corpse comes to light. When DCI George Hennessey and DC Yellich get to it they discover that its head has been severed from the body. Well, there could be a whole load of reasons for that. But as the case progresses, there doesn't seem to be a good reason for it at all. Steeped in the history, manners and countryside of the North of England, this is an investigation that leads from dental records to a reading group and from DNA to losing the appetite for a pub lunch. It is an unbelievably strange tale that Peter Turnbull tells unnervingly believably.
Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his loyal sidekick, Detective Sergeant Yellich, have a hard time to choose a suspect from many who shoots the "universally unpopular foul-mouthed, foul-tempered Ossler."--Jacket.
When clearing rubble at this new house, Francis Armstrong uncovers a woman's skeleton. DCI Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich, alongside pathologist Louise D'Acre, follow the road of evidence to a doorstep that makes no attempt to conceal its horrific crimes and even brags about them.
Hennessey and Yellich investigate after a number of bodies are found in the kitchen garden of the home where the recently deceased owner was housebound for 25 years.
DCI Hennessey and Sgt. Yellich return in “a cleverly plotted, absorbing yarn that crime-fiction readers will savor” from the author of The Altered Case (Booklist). When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice center, each with the word “murder” scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise map coordinates, the police are called. DCI Hennessey of the Vale of York police and his team of detectives visit the sinister location and make a chilling discovery: the body of a professional man who had been reported missing ten years earlier. Who sent the postcards, and why so long after the crime? As Hennessey and his team investigate—uncovering more past murders...
While Chief Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich are called in to investigate a decades-old murder after the discovery of human remains, Margaret South is haunted by the unlovable face of bullies' favourite Norris Smith. Whatever did happen to him on that unnervingly quiet night?