A corpse is found after floods in Yorkshire. Steeped in the history, manners and countryside of the North of England, this is an investigation for DCI Hennessey and DC Yellich which leads from dental records to a reading group and from DNA to losing the appetite for a pub lunch.
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 roundin...
This is a short little book featuring DS Hennesey and his partner Yellich. The double murder of an apparently wealthy couple points the team in directions that uncover financial misrepresentation and to another murder that occurred in the past. There are suspects galore, all with good motives...b...
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.
Glasgow's thick blanket of snow makes it difficult to discover clues to the identity of a knife-carrying murderer.
Hennessey reclined in his chair. ‘Booze, the demon drink,’ he sighed and raised his eyebrows. ‘Seems a likely thread, sir, a likely common denominator,’ Carmen Pharoah sipped her tea. ‘Veronica Goodwin evidently had a significant problem, so did Angela Prebble and Mr Penta was angry about being a...
The immediate, and what was also to prove the lasting impression for Webster and Yellich was that the house and its owner had both seen better days; both were elderly in their own way and probably because of that both seemed to the officers to be ideally suited to each other. Both, as Webster had...
George Hennessey leaned leisurely back in his chair and cupped his fleshly and slightly liver-spotted hands round the mug of hot tea which he was holding. ‘Just can’t think without this lovely stuff,’ he commented, lifting the tea to his lips and, finding it to be still too hot to drink, lowered ...
In which a man becomes a woman, a name is mentioned and Carmen Pharoah and Somerled Yellich are severally at home to the most charitable reader. ‘I think your assumptions are more than reasonable, Chief Inspector, much more than reasonable.’ Kamy Joseph was a dark-skinned, thin-faced, slender wom...
in which two men in their middle years return, with the police, to a scene of their youth. Cyrus Henry Middleton had first realized that he had entered adulthood when, one afternoon during an early spring day, he and three friends had sat at a wooden dining table, which stood by the rear window o...
It was caused, the meteorologists announced, by a high-pressure cell that was stationary over Iceland and had thus allowed the arctic weather to sweep south and over the entire United Kingdom with a substantial blanket of snow and ice, especially black ice. It was further reported that the winter...
He glanced out of his office window and the summer sky over London that morning as he let the phone ring twice before he picked it up leisurely. ‘Detective Inspector Vicary, Murder and Serious Crime Unit,’ he said in a calm voice. ‘Lady on the phone for you, sir; lady member of the public.’ The v...
She had long, bony fingers which she wrapped round the door as she peered out at Penny Yewdall and Tom Ainsclough through the narrow gap which she permitted between the door and the doorframe. She glanced wonderingly at the officers’ identity cards and then gazed at Ainsclough and Yewdall in a se...