Peter Turnbull, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19298-3
While maintaining his usual intricate procedural plotting in this ninth in his choice series (after The Killing Floor, 1995), Turnbull intensifies the dark presence of its setting: Glasgow, Scotland's largest and most maligned city. Ronald Grenn...
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8635-4
Things are slow for Det. Chief Insp. George Hennessy and Det. Sgt. Somerled Yellich in British author Turnbull’s meticulous 24th mystery featuring the Vale of York police (after 2013’s Gift Wrapped). Hennessy and his team have time to look at a case
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8572-2
British author Turnbull’s engrossing fifth police procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Harry Vicary (after 2014’s Denial of Murder) opens quietly enough when Andrew “Big Andy” Cragg, a minor gang member—really a gofer or errand boy—drops into a...
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8297-4
In Turnbull’s absorbing fourth Harry Vicary mystery (after 2012’s The Garden Party), the members of the Murder and Serious Crime Squad of New Scotland Yard are perplexed when the body of Gordon Cogan, recently released from prison for the murder of...
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8262-2
An elegantly constructed plot and a sly ending more than compensate for some stilted prose in Turnbull’s entertaining 23rd mystery featuring Vale of York policemen Det. Chief Insp. George Hennessey and Sgt. Somerled Yellich (after 2012’s The Altered
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $27.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8216-5
As Turnbull’s third mystery featuring Det. Insp. Harry Vicary (after 2011’s Deep Cover) begins, construction worker Alan Brady arrives at New Scotland Yard with an enigmatic note, which he discovered in a wall during a demolition project, concerning
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8065-9
Turnbull’s solid if low-key second Harry Vicary police procedural (after 2010’s Improving the Silence) begins with a disturbing discovery: the frozen body of Michael Dalkeith, an unfortunate young man who’s apparently been done in by the unusually...
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Peter Turnbull, Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6969-2
Those with a hankering for a solid police procedural with no distracting subplots will welcome this gripping entry in British author Turnbull's long-running series featuring George Hennessey and Somerled Yellich (Deliver Us from Evil, etc.). When...
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Peter Turnbull, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5970-9
The unearthing of a female skeleton puts the two Yorkshire cops on the trail of an unrepentant killer.
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Peter Turnbull, Author Severn House Publishers $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5908-2
Peter Turnbull's fifth Hennessey and Yellich police procedural, Dark Secrets, though a well-written page-turner, doesn't quite satisfy the expectations raised by its dramatic opening: an alcoholic shows up at the Mickelgate Bar Police Station in...
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Peter Turnbull, Author . Severn $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5672-2
Chief Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich return in another engaging mystery from seasoned British author Turnbull (Fear of Drowning; Deathtrap; etc.). Set in Yorkshire, this well-crafted whodunit is a must for police procedural fans and...
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Peter Turnbull, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-11844-0
Forcefully combining the percolating violence of his industrial strength locale with the inherent compassion of the Glasgow Police P Division, whose personal lives are made discordant by a cacophony of subtle ills, Turnbull continues quietly to...
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Peter Turnbull, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-312-08837-8
The urban wastelands of industrial Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, are bared mercilessly once again in this latest potent procedural from the author of Fair Friday and Two Way Cut . Turnbull's compelling vision rivals the narrative firepower of...
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Peter Turnbull, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (253p) ISBN 978-0-312-14317-6
The title of Turnbull's latest novel (after Big Money is the name of a last-ditch Nazi mission at the end of the war to kidnap Ike in Paris and give Germany a stronger hand at the bargaining table. Three top SS agents, two of whom were raised in the
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Peter Turnbull, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-312-02306-5
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
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Peter Turnbull, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26158-0
""There's nowt so queer as folk,"" Sergeant Yellich tells his boss, Chief Inspector George Hennessey of the City of York Police, near the start of this gripping police procedural, the first in a projected series from this polished British author (The
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Peter Turnbull, Author . Severn $27.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6892-3
At the start of this absorbing entry in Turnbull's long-running Vale of York police series (Informed Consent
, etc.), a man out for his morning stroll happens on the frozen body of an elegantly dressed woman seated on a grassy canal bank....
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Peter Turnbull, Author . Severn $27.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6841-1
Despite the surprising killing off of a major character, this competent stand-alone police procedural from British veteran Turnbull (Turning Point
) offers little suspense or excitement. The digging of a trench in a forest northeast of London turns...
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Peter Turnbull, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5745-3
Floods have made a pudding of the Yorkshire countryside, as a closeup of a pair of Wellies standing in the mud so graphically illustrates on the jacket, in the latest smoothly engaging Hennessey and Yellich police procedural from British author...
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Peter Turnbull, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5744-6
In this smooth, deftly plotted police procedural, British author Turnbull brings back the likable team of Chief Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich (Deathtrap; Perils and Dangers) to solve the 22-year-old murder of a newly graduated law...
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8683-5
Maurice Mundy, the 55-year-old hero of this solid series launch from Turnbull (A Dreadful Past and 23 other Hennessy and Yellich mysteries), has recently retired as a detective constable from London’s Metropolitan Police. In order to keep his hand...
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Peter Turnbull. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8857-0
A simple, straightforward plot propels Turnbull’s curiously antiquated 25th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. George Hennessey and Det. Sgt. Somerled Yellich of the Micklegate Bar Police Station in York, England (after 2016’s A Dreadful Past). The...
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