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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    April 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Glasgow P Division Procedural

1 - Deep & Crisp & Even (1981)
2 - Dead Knock (1982)
3 - Fair Friday (Jan-1983)
4 - Big Money (Sep-1984)
5 - Two Way Cut (Oct-1988)
6 - Condition Purple (Jun-1989)
7 - And Did Murder Him (Aug-1991)
8 - Long Day Monday (Mar-1993)
9 - The Killing Floor (Feb-1995)
10 - The Man with No Face (Oct-1998)

A Harry Vicary Mystery

1 - Deep Cover (Oct-2011)
2 - Denial of Murder (Jun-2014)
3 - In Vino Veritas (Mar-2016)

A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery

1 - Fear of Drowning (Aug-2000)
2 - Deathtrap (Jun-2000)
3 - Perils and Dangers (May-2001)
4 - The Return (Nov-2001)
5 - Dark Secrets (Nov-2002)
6 - After the Flood (May-2002)
7 - All Roads Leadeth (Jul-2003)
8 - Treasure Trove (Jan-2004)
9 - The Dance Master (Jul-2004)
10 - Hopes and Fears (May-2005)
11 - The Legacy (Aug-2005)
12 - Chill Factor (Nov-2005)
13 - False Knight (Aug-2006)
14 - Fire Burn (Oct-2006)
15 - Chelsea Smile (May-2007)
16 - Once a Biker (Nov-2007)
17 - No Stone Unturned (Apr-2008)
18 - Turning Point (Dec-2008)
19 - Informed Consent (May-2009)
20 - Deliver Us from Evil (Jun-2010)
21 - Aftermath (Feb-2011)
22 - The Altered Case (Jun-2012)
23 - The Garden Party (Dec-2012)
24 - Gift Wrapped (Jun-2013)
25 - A Dreadful Past (Oct-2016)
26 - Cold Wrath (Apr-2019)

A Maurice Mundy Mystery

1 - A Cold Case (Apr-2017)

Book List in Order: 46 titles






  • Glasgow's investigative P division goes into action when a meticulously planned post office raid yields two clues--the trace of a rare plant on the getaway car and the teeth of a long-dead murder victim...





  • In Glasgow one summer evening a frightened young woman in heels is walking. Click. Click. Click. The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city. She knows this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she knows he k...




  • 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 sen...






  • REMAINS TO BE SEEN Social worker Pam MeArthur had a talent for making enemies and wasn't missed much when she disappeared. But when her mutilated body is found nearly eight months later--head and hands removed in an attempt to conceal her identity...



  • When a would-be advocate from Glasgow meets an enchanting woman, he is caught up in a web of murder and revenge, and finds himself in Italy, where nothing is as it seems and there is a high price to pay....



  • When a man is found with his face blown off, the Glasgow P Division detectives quickly establish his identity. But the mystery surrounding his death only deepens."When it comes to writing police procedurals, Turnbull has few peers. This low-key Scott...



  • George Hennessey has always been proud of being Detective Chief Inspector at Micklegate Bar Police Station in the Vale of York. Until, that is, the body of ambitious newshound Cornelius Weekes is discovered, and what at first looks like a cut-and-dri...



  • When middle-aged couple Max and Amanda Williams disappear without a trace, Detective Inspector George Hennessey is summoned to investigate. His gut feeling of foul play proves accurate when the bodies of the missing couple are discovered in a shallow...



  • Nathan Ossler was a blackmailer: he made people tremble, pay up and want to die. So when he is found slumped in an armchair with the front of his head missing, nobody in the Yorkshire village of Strensall is shocked. Who, though, pulled the trigger o...




  • "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 Yel...




  • The horizon doesn't always mark the end of the road. . . When Francis Armstrong moves into his fussily designed Victorian house in the heart of the Vale of York, his August stretches before him in a haze of leisurely house refurbishments. His decisio...






  • A retired academic returns to some of his childhood haunts and makes the grim discovery of four corpses, all members of the same family, all murdered. Suspicion soon falls on the one surviving family member but, as DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich delve ...



  • One hot, dry summer afternoon, taking his habitual route across the Fens, a walker strays from the marked path and, stopping to take a drink, glances down and sees a skull in the long grass. Excavating the grave, the police discover the remains of cl...



  • Hennessey and Yellich are led a not so merry dance
    When Matthew Hopkins leaves his hell-hole council flat to seek out funding for his heroin addiction, he spots a plastic bag on the landing outside. Pouncing on it hopefully, he finds it contains o...



  • The body of a young Russian girl is found in woods near York in midsummer but she is not just dead, she's frozen ...DCI George Hennessey knows that there is good and bad in everyone, and everything. So when he sees the condition of the young girl's c...



  • One hot summer afternoon Nigel Swannell is distracted from his regular afternoon stroll by a swarm of flies over a thick undergrowth of gorse. Further investigation leads him to a shocking discovery: a headless, handless corpse has been dumped in the...



  • Hennessey and Yellich are looking for a Mr Big - A corpse is discovered in the middle of the city of York. Male; no identification. Shot. And tortured before his murder. A professional hit, by the look of it. Gradually people talk; hints are dropped;...



  • A new psychological thriller from the master of suspense When Dr Maurice Simnal goes to interview the charming psychopath Humphrey Sweet, he thinks he may be on to something: an entirely new kind of serial killer. But as he and his colleague Ruth Day...



  • Virginia Woolley stands to inherit eight million pounds upon her husband's death. Her husband, Maurice thirty years her elder, drowns his unhappy knowledge of his wife's infidelity in bottles of whisky, waiting for his life to draw to an uneventful c...



  • Hennesy and Yellich face a shocking crime Mary Golightly was not a happy woman. Her husband and she were locked into a perpetual marital war so violent that the whole street knew about it. Yet in the last few weeks before she went missing, she was lo...



  • This is a Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.

    A badly burned body - male, presumed local. And then another charred corpse. Related? Crimes of passion or revenge? Family feud? Possibly the latter, but neither of the children seem likely perpetrator...






  • A new case for Hennessey and YellichFive years after Duncan Percival is rendered a vegetable after a vicious attack, he finally dies. DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich are brought in to investigate what is now a murder case. As they delve deeper, the dete...



  • 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 sile...



  • The latest Hennessey and Yellich mystery

    Hennessey and Yellich find themselves seeking the body of a man missing for ten years. But the mystery turns into murder and naturally the bossy widow, nicknamed the long-haired colonel by her husband, ...



  • This is the latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery.

    George Hennessey is beginning to accept the inevitable - that age is catching up with him and he needs to delegate to, and nurture, his young up and coming team. But there is no substitute for ...



  • The new Hennessey and Yellich mystery.

    A police officer finds a badly injured man lying in a street in the centre of York in the early hours of the morning. The man subsequently succumbs to his injures without regaining consciousness. Henness...



  • A brilliant stand-alone novel dark, gritty, and compelling marking a new departure for the author - When a body is discovered in a rough grave, deep in the woods, the police find that it is of one of their young undercover officers who died nearly th...



  • 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....



  • 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, ...



  • 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 c...



  • 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 ...






  • 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...



  • A set of anonymous postcards leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey to make a chilling discovery. When four postcards are sent anonymously to an advice centre, each with the word ‘murder’ scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise...



  • Two bodies, two similar causes of death . . . Harry Vicary and his team are plunged into a complex investigation where all is not as it seems. When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within twenty-four hours of each other at the same ...



  • A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman’s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into another perplexing murder investigation. ‘Big Andy’ Cragg’s drunken disclosure to an undercover police officer in a West London pub that he wa...



  • The discovery of a damaged vase takes Hennessey and Yellich back to a twenty-year-old murder case, with consequences for the present. A chance sighting of a vase for sale in an antique shop leads Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team t...



  • 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...



  • Who was Anthony Garrett? The murder of a reclusive local man draws DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich into a baffling new case. On a hot summer morning, Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York, on his way to a few hoursâ€...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Turnbull has published 46 books.

Peter Turnbull does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cold Wrath, was published in April 2019.

The first book by Peter Turnbull, Deep & Crisp & Even, was published in January 1981.

Yes. Peter Turnbull has 4 series.