Peter Turnbull has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators. The most-rated is P Division.
Turning Point
Summary
George Hennessey is beginning to accept the inevitable - that age is catching up with him and he needs to delegate to his young up-and-coming team. But there is no substitute for experience as he marshals his troops to investigate two parallel murders committed 20 or so years apart. First, a young man limps back from his father's funeral to report a murder he only now feels able to disclose. But naturally things are not quite as straightforward as they seem and the convoluted trail leads to a second more recent murder. Hennessey and Yellich encourage their team to probe deeper as they uncover more sinister goings-on in the apparently tranquil Vale of York.
©2008 Peter Turnbull (P)2009 Soundings
The Dance Master
Summary
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?
©2004 Peter Turnbull (P)2009 Soundings
Fire Burn
Summary
When two badly burned bodies are discovered, the York police begin to wonder if there is a link. Are they crimes of passion or revenge? The result of a family feud? Hennessey and Yellich thoroughly investigate the private and business lives of the deceased, but find little to go on. Then Hennessey's 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 another. Could this be the work of a serial killer, and can two honest and hardworking policemen unearth enough clues to prevent a further tragedy?
©2006 Peter Turnbull (P)2007 Soundings
No Stone Unturned
Summary
A tip-off leads police to dismantle a pile of rubble in the village of Pendwick, in search of a hidden body. As expected, a corpse is found and is identified as being that of a local businessman who has been missing for 10 years.
Hennessey and Yellich - along with an ever-expanding team -head up the ensuing murder investigation. And then two further bodies are discovered - along with a particularly nasty brand of political extremism involving just a few too many respected local businessmen.
©2008 Peter Turnbull (P)2008 Soundings
Treasure Trove
Summary
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.
©2003 Peter Turnbull (P)2008 Isis Publishing Ltd
Once a Biker
Summary
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. As Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his team try to investigate, it seems that the bikers' vow of silence is still as strong as it was all those years ago, and many gang members refuse to discuss those days of dangerous initiation rites and violent dares. But then another ex-member is found murdered, and it seems that someone is determined to keep old secrets dead and buried.
©2007 Peter Turnbull (P)2008 Soundings
Deathtrap
Summary
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...
©2000 Peter Turnbull (P)2008 Soundings
A Cold Case
Summary
Maurice Mundy, recently retired detective constable at the Metropolitan Police, has returned to join Scotland Yard's Cold Case Review Team. Ten years ago a 12-year-old boy was murdered, his body left floating in a nearby pond. A second look at the case soon reveals that a sex worker was also murdered nearby on the same night. Known as a loose cannon who doesn't always play by the rules, Mundy is in danger of ruffling more than a few feathers as he probes deeper into the events of that fateful night. Will his maverick approach lead him to the truth, or will it prove to be a dangerous step too far?
©2016 Peter Turnbull (P)2018 Soundings
Chelsea Smile
Summary
Five years after Duncan Percival is left in a vegetative state following a vicious attack, he finally dies. The case has now become a murder investigation, and DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich are brought in to renew the evidence and re-interview the suspects. As they delve deeper, bodies start turning up, and the detectives are drawn into York’s criminal underworld where grasses are punished and the gruesome Chelsea Smile is the favoured method of retribution…
©2007 Peter Turnball (P)2007 Soundings
All Roads Leadeth
Summary
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.
©2003 Peter Turnbull (P)2007 Soundings
P Division
Summary
All 18 episodes of the police procedural featuring the Glaswegian cops of P Division. Glasgow’s finest are on the case in these thrilling radio adaptations, based on the books by Peter Turnbull. In the four-part serial Condition Purple, a murdered prostitute is found in the heart of Glasgow's prosperous business quarter. Could a tattoo on her body hold the key to finding her killer? In Two Way Cut, another four-parter, a headless body without a speck of blood on it has the cops puzzled - and who was the strange figure that PC Hamilton saw running along by the canal? Series 1 of Code Four One sees a skeleton found on a building site in 'The Bonepit', while in 'The Ladder', a wealthy couple disappears, believed murdered - but where are the bodies? And in the tense two-parter 'Long Pig/The Torchman', a brutal crime is linked to other murders, and a psychological profiler is called in to help find the serial killer. Series 2 of Code Four One opens with 'McInroy’s Point', in which a policewoman is suspected of killing her own mother. A seeming suicide puts the police on the trail of a cult in 'Suffer the Children', and a young woman is found strangled in 'Kissogram'. In 'Secret Affair', a murder in a rock band raises old nightmares for DS Sussock; in 'The Good Thief', a well-known TV personality is killed during a burglary; and in 'Hooked', when a pillar of the community is found dead in his office, P Division uncover his sordid past. Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine, this gritty, atmospheric series stars Martin Cochrane and Crawford Logan as DI Fabian Donoghue, Ralph Riach and Jake D’Arcy as DS Ray Sussock, Frank Gallagher as DC Malcolm Montgomery, Andrew Conlan as DC Tony Abernethy, Martin McCardie as PC Phil Hamilton, and Ann Louise Ross and Eliza Langland as WPC Elka Willems. Written by Peter Turnbull. Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. Produced and directed by Hamish Wilson. Recorded in a BBC studio and on location in Glasgow.
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