False Knight

Hennessey & Yellich #13

by Peter Turnbull

Hennesy and Yellich face a shocking crime Mary Golightly was not a happy woman. Her husband and she were locked into a perpetual marital war so violent that the whole street knew about it. Yet in the last few weeks before she went missing, she was looking happier, as if something had happened to make her life sweeter. That was before a bin man found her thigh in a refuse sack. Her husband makes no pretence at sorrow over her death, but does that mean he killed her? With Hennessy worrying that age may be affecting his judgement and other victims struggling for survival, it may take more than a standard investigation to get to the truth ? before someone else dies.

Genres: Mystery

149 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2006

About the author

Peter Turnbull is the author of nineteen previous novels and numerous works of short fiction. He worked for many years as a social worker in Glasgow before returning to his native Yorkshire.

Reviews

[Alison C · Rating 4 out of 5]

When the leg of a woman is found in a garbage can, it doesn’t take DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich to put the husband into the frame: after all, the couple fought incessantly, he was known to have serial affairs and she had started the process of divorce. Plus, the man’s first wife had disappeared many years ago, a fact suspicious in itself. But the case turns out to be more complicated than it first appears, and it seems that there might be more than one murderer in town…. I know some readers chafe at the seemingly unchanging nature of the characters in this series, but this book should put paid to that complaint: not only is Hennessey’s important relationship more front and center (as opposed to being referenced only at the end of the book), there is a rift between the DCI and his Sergeant, Yellich, such that Hennessey for the first time is beginning to wonder if he really should retire after all. The storyline is well-plotted and interesting, as I always find with this series, but I also enjoyed this change-up in character relations; recommended!

[Gary Van Cott · Rating 3 out of 5]

What to say? It was short. The suspect was obvious once the author got around to that part of the book. The concluding scene seemed rushed. Not too much rehashing the past. The only thing different in this very static series was that Hennessey seemed to be forgetting to take obvious actions and was getting upset at Yellich when he reminded him.

[Hapzydeco · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this police procedural Hennessey and Yellich take on the devil in his guise as the "False Knight". Turnbull turns his writing up a notch.