Peter Turnbull Books in Order

A heavy Glasgow snowfall muffles tracks and slows every lead as P Division hunts a knife killer. The debut sets the tone for Turnbull's brisk, street-level police work, where weather and routine both matter.

Another Glasgow killing drops P Division into a tight, methodical investigation where witnesses are hard to read and small clues carry real weight. The focus is on the squad's patient police work rather than flashy twists.

Bill McGarrigle is savagely attacked in a Glasgow alley, and P Division launches a full murder investigation. Holiday staffing and oppressive summer heat make an already difficult case even harder to control.

When serious money sits near the center of a murder case, Glasgow's P Division has to follow greed, pressure, and shifting loyalties. It's a lean procedural built around the slow grind of finding who profits from violence.

Young Tom travels with his father on a quest to find the legendary Gryphon. It sits apart from Turnbull's crime novels, leaning into adventure, myth, and a younger protagonist's sense of discovery.

A headless body with no trace of blood gives Glasgow's P Division a case that makes almost no sense at first. Strange sightings by a canal and stubborn detective work gradually bring the shape of the crime into view.

A murdered heroin-addicted sex worker, a suspicious tattoo, and eerie phone messages pull Glasgow's P Division into a grim case. Their search leads toward a violent female gang and a killer with a brutal agenda.

This standalone moves into the legal and moral machinery around a serious crime. Turnbull looks at how evidence, argument, and personal motive can all tug the search for justice off course.

The death of a young man sets Glasgow's P Division in motion again. Turnbull keeps the case lean and procedural, showing how pressure, routine, and close attention gradually turn a baffling killing into something solvable.

An abandoned stolen car and disturbed earth in rural Lanarkshire revive Sergeant Ray Sussock's memories of an older crime. As more bodies emerge and a boy disappears, P Division realizes it may be racing a serial killer.

Eight months after social worker Pam McArthur vanishes, her body is found and P Division reopens the question of who wanted her gone. The trail leads through blackmail, corruption, and a secret with ugly reach.

This dark standalone confronts child abuse without flinching. It's a short, unsettling novel in which the real force comes from the damage done, and from how long that damage can stay hidden.

When a man is found with his face blown off, Glasgow's P Division faces a brutal case with almost no easy starting point. The novel follows the squad as they work backward from shock to motive and identity.

When a comfortable middle-aged couple vanish from an affluent North Yorkshire suburb, Hennessey and Yellich start with a disappearance and end up in murder. The deeper they look, the more family and financial secrets surface.

An apparent suicide in a fume-filled car turns into murder once the autopsy is done. Hennessey and Yellich trace the dead reporter's last moves to an older killing and a conviction that may have gone badly wrong.

Blackmailer Nathan Ossler made a career out of other people's fear, so his death leaves a long trail of motives behind it. Hennessey and Yellich have to sort genuine terror from practiced deceit.

A new case brings old history back to the surface for Hennessey and Yellich. The real tension lies in what has come back, who wants it buried again, and how the past keeps reshaping the present.

Once the waters go down, what remains is harder to ignore. Hennessey and Yellich take on a case in which changed ground and exposed secrets force people to face what they hoped had washed away.

When a drunk wanders into Micklegate Bar station with information he barely understands, Hennessey and Yellich find a case thick with hidden history. The investigation lives up to its title, with private guilt everywhere they turn.

The discovery of an old skeleton and a newer killing sends Hennessey and Yellich through a maze of damaged marriages, missing women, and old betrayals. In York, several separate roads keep leading back to the same ugliness.

A retired academic returns to places he knew as a child and disturbs more than memory. Hennessey and Yellich follow the trail as nostalgia gives way to danger, resentment, and a crime someone thought safely buried.

When Handy stumbles across trouble yet again, Hennessey and Yellich are pulled into a case balanced between anxiety and wishful thinking. As suspects hedge and families strain, the pair work toward a harder truth.

Set in Cambridge, this standalone mystery circles a killing linked to the city's famous Reality Checkpoint. Turnbull uses the setting well, turning familiar academic streets into a place where performance, status, and danger overlap.

Hennessey and Yellich are led in circles by a case full of misdirection and carefully managed impressions. The pleasure here is watching patient police work break through a performance built to hide the truth.

When Gary Sledge, known as Hammer, is found dead in a York park, Hennessey and Yellich step into a case that points toward bigger criminal muscle. The hunt for answers is as much about power as it is about murder.

A hot afternoon takes a deadly turn, and Hennessey and Yellich are left to unravel what one death has inherited from the past. Family history, private grudges, and old choices all weigh on the case.

Virginia Woolley has already married for money, and widowhood looks like the next step up. When two rich husbands die in suspicious circumstances, the police start asking whether ambition has turned lethal.

A shocking crime sends Hennessey and Yellich after appearances that will not hold up under scrutiny. The case turns on false respectability, damaged trust, and the gap between the story people sell and the truth beneath it.

A badly burned body leaves Hennessey and Yellich with almost nothing certain to work from. As identity and motive slowly emerge, the case grows into a tense search for the violence hidden behind the fire.

In a secure hospital, manipulative killer Humphrey Sweet begins feeding Dr. Maurice Simnal details about murders the police never solved. The result is a dark psychological thriller about charisma, evil, and the danger of getting too close.

A particularly vicious case pushes Hennessey and Yellich into a world where violence is used as a warning. Fear and silence close ranks around the truth, and getting witnesses to talk becomes half the battle.

Old loyalties die hard in this Hennessey and Yellich case, where a deathbed revelation points back to lives shaped by biker culture. The investigation turns on what people remember, what they hide, and what they still owe.

Hennessey and Yellich dig through every layer of a stubborn case, following small clues that others missed. It's a patient Yorkshire procedural where the truth only appears once every easy answer has fallen away.

A routine investigation changes direction when one fresh detail shifts the whole balance of the case. Hennessey and Yellich have to rethink motives, loyalties, and where the real danger lies.

A case with medical and moral overtones sends Hennessey and Yellich into a tangle of responsibility, secrecy, and self-protection. As the facts shift, they have to decide who knew what, and when.

A seemingly isolated crime draws Hennessey and Yellich into a darker pattern of fear, manipulation, and concealed guilt. The case asks whether the real danger is the obvious suspect, or the quieter evil hiding nearby.

When a woodland grave yields the body of an undercover officer missing for decades, Harry Vicary's team reopens a case the force would rather forget. The deeper they dig, the clearer the police corruption becomes.

When a grim discovery reopens old damage, Hennessey and Yellich have to sort present danger from the wreckage left behind. This case is driven by consequences, where one violent act keeps rippling outward.

A man dies of exposure on Hampstead Heath, but the deeper shock lies beneath him, the skeleton of a young woman. Harry Vicary's team follows the trail into a crooked rental network and a brutal world of exploitation.

Five skeletons found in a deep grave pull Hennessey and Yellich into a multiple murder case with roots stretching far into the past. The longer it has lain buried, the harder it is to prove who killed whom.

A hidden note in a London hotel wall sends Harry Vicary to a burial site holding two charred skeletons. To solve the case, he must reconstruct a notorious gangland party that ended with two men vanishing.

Four postcards bearing the word murder and a set of map coordinates lead Hennessey and Yellich to a hidden skeleton. The puzzle uncovers old disappearances, clever killers, and a case designed to mislead.

Two bodies found at the same spot within a day point Harry Vicary's squad toward a single, complicated truth. Their search runs from rural Hampshire to London's sex trade, old abuse, and a possible wrongful conviction.

A damaged vase nudges Hennessey and Yellich toward a case rooted in long memory and buried resentment. What begins as a small curiosity turns into a murder inquiry shaped by old wrongs that never quite died.

A drunken confession in a West London pub leads Harry Vicary to the long-buried body of a young woman. The case opens into contract killings, money laundering, and witnesses too frightened to talk.

Retired detective constable Maurice Mundy returns to Scotland Yard to review the unsolved murder of a twelve-year-old boy. The deeper he digs, the more the case links to a sex worker's death and a wider pattern of violence.

A reclusive man is found shot dead in his drawing room, and almost no one seems to know who he really was. Hennessey and Yellich must piece together a life built on secrecy before a cool, efficient killer disappears.