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Foreign many years, he worked as a government social worker in Glasgow, before returning to his native Yorkshire, where he currently resides.
(Poor Handy has a nasty habit of stumbling across the newl...)
Poor Handy has a nasty habit of stumbling across the newly deceased. You could say it was almost as though he was cursed. First he discovered his own mother's body, then that of a friend and finally his son. Now it's happened again.
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(George Hennessey, Detective Chief Inspector at Micklegate...)
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. With the help of loyal Detective Sergeant Yellich, Hennessey is determined to solve this case quickly. But the investigation into Weekes' apparent suicide burns a path to a whole host of unsolved cases: the murder of a mentally ill woman from a rich family; the bloody slaughter of another ambitious journalist; and the untimely end of a young man haunted by a terrible secret. Delving deeper into these past cases, Hennessey and Yellich uncover a disturbing and corrupting truth...
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( The latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - When a woman...)
The latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - 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. But as Hennessey and Yellich investigate, they discover that the victim may not have been all she seemed . . .
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(There was a time when Simon Knapp wouldn't have dared go ...)
There was a time when Simon Knapp wouldn't have dared go near Edgfield House. As a teenager, he'd only had the nerve to snoop around the grounds. But now, returning 50 years later, he marches straight up to the derelict 18th-century stately home and pushes open the front door. But curiosity killed the cat. When the police arrive, it is with a similar carefree spirit that they carry out a routine search of the house. And they, too, come across something they were not looking for. But 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.
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( A retired academic returns to some of his childhood hau...)
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 further into the case, they unravel the story of a family which has fallen from grace with the peerage, and discover a strange, remote, inward-looking village in the vale of York with its own secrets and intrigue hidden behind its placid facade. A fortune is found in an attic just as help arrives from an unexpected source--and does so in the nick of time...
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(A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a Lo...)
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 who were the dead men and how did they meet their fate? To solve the case Vicary must uncover what happened at a notorious gangland garden party – a party from which two men never returned . . .
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( A Harry Vicary Mystery – the second novel in a brand-ne...)
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.
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(When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of ...)
When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of an advice centre, each with the word ‘murder’ scribbled in a foreign language and the same precise OS map reference, 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, a case of local authority corruption and two manipulative wives keen to gift-wrap their husbands as murderers in order to benefit financially from their estates – they find themselves drawn into a puzzling and dangerous investigation.
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(When Matthew Hopkins left his hellhole council flat to se...)
When Matthew Hopkins left his hellhole council flat to seek out funding for his heroin addiction, he spotted a plastic bag on the landing outside. Pouncing on it hopefully, he found it contained only a number of bones. Human bones, but from a number of different people, all victims of the same killer. Both the bags and the bones open up more than enough avenues of investigation for Chief Inspector Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich. It would seem the killer wanted to draw attention to himself, perhaps even to be caught. But when a new urgency is infused into the case, will the detectives be able to make use of his helpfulness in time?
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(Virginia Woolley stands to inherit eight million pounds u...)
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 close. Like with her other marriages, Virginia must do something about her situation. Virginia meets a young landscape architect who, out of work, has no means to support himself other than the dole. Christopher Elms finds himself falling in love with the wealthy seductress, to the point where he insists that in order to stay with Virginia, he must kill her husband. A team of highly skilled detectives takes up the murder case, with the help of Maurice Woolley’s sister, whose suspicions of Virginia were strong from the start. Are Virginia’s carefully laid-out plans enough to free her from her husband, and place Christopher in jail, letting this black widow off with another easy fortune?
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(When Francis Armstrong moves into his fussily designed Vi...)
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 refurbishment. His decision to move a pile of rubble, however, brings DCI Hennessey and Sergeant Yellich springing to the scene at the double. Louise D'Acre helps them with the examination of the skeleton that has been uncovered, and everything seems to point to the murder of a woman who was reported missing 19 years previously. But they soon find themselves headed down a different road, investigating other unsolved disappearances that lead to a London villain who has a macabre way of punishing informers.
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( A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - A badly burned body. ...)
A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - A badly burned body. And then another charred corpse. Related? Crimes of passion or revenge? Family feud? Hennessey and Yellich are on the case, but Detective Chief Inspector Hennesseys gut feeling as to the identity of the killer, based on years of experience and intuition, is shaken when another burned body is discovered. And then another. Is this the work of a serial killer and can two honest policeman unearth enough clues to prevent a further tragedy?
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Foreign many years, he worked as a government social worker in Glasgow, before returning to his native Yorkshire, where he currently resides.
(When four postcards are sent anonymously to the staff of ...)
(When Francis Armstrong moves into his fussily designed Vi...)
(A note that is discovered hidden in a wall cavity of a Lo...)
( The latest Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - When a woman...)
( A retired academic returns to some of his childhood hau...)
(When Matthew Hopkins left his hellhole council flat to se...)
( A Harry Vicary Mystery – the second novel in a brand-ne...)
(George Hennessey, Detective Chief Inspector at Micklegate...)
(Virginia Woolley stands to inherit eight million pounds u...)
(There was a time when Simon Knapp wouldn't have dared go ...)
(Poor Handy has a nasty habit of stumbling across the newl...)
( A Hennessey and Yellich Mystery - A badly burned body. ...)