Peter Turnbull

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....

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman's body throws Harry Vicary and his team into another perplexing murder investigation....

When Francis Armstrong moved into his fussily designed Victorian house in the heart of the Vale of York, he didn't expect to find a skeleton....

A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a London hotel leads Detective Inspector Harry Vicary....

When a deep grave containing five skeletons is discovered in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York Police are called in to investigate....

When a skeleton is discovered in a deep grave at the edge of an area of woodland, the police discover that it is one of their own officers who disappeared whilst on duty some 30 years earlier....

A tip-off leads police to dismantle a pile of rubble in the village of Pendwick, in search of a hidden body....

When two badly burned bodies are discovered, the York police begin to wonder if there is a link....

Virginia Woolley is a determined lady, focussed on improving her lot in life by taking on the airs and graces of the middle classes....

The mute society of Yorkshire's back-of-beyond village seems keen to guard its secrets, leaving DCI Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich with a difficult case on their hands....

A police officer finds a badly injured man lying in a street in the centre of York in the early hours of the morning.....

When Matthew Hopkins left his council flat to seek out funding for his heroin addiction, he spotted a plastic bag on the landing outside...he found it contained only a number of bones....

Hennessey and Yellich encourage their team to probe deeper as they uncover more sinister goings-on in the apparently tranquil Vale of York....

When a deathbed confession leads to the discovery of a body in Foxfoot Wood, a 20-year-old missing person's case is now a murder investigation and a link is made with a bikers' gang, the Dungeon Kings....

George Hennessey, Detective Chief Inspector at Micklegate Bar Police Station in York, is contented in his work...until the body of ambitious news-hound Cornelius Weekes is discovered....

When the bodies of two murder victims are discovered within 24 hours of each other at the same location....

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....

When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre, each with the word “murder” scribbled in a foreign language....

Five years after Duncan Percival is left in a vegetative state following a vicious attack, he finally dies....

When five corpses in various states of decomposition are found chained to the walls of an overgrown kitchen garden....