P Division Series by Peter Turnbull
P Division #1
Deep and Crisp and Even
Peter Turnbull
Glasgow was under snow, deep and crisp and even - and still it fell. PC Phil Hamilton sees a pedestrian knifed and fall dead in Argyle Street, but the snow immediately covers the killer's tracks. Soon another man is knifed, and again found by PC Hamilton. Soon vigilantes are patrolling the streets and anyone and everyone falls under suspicion from both them and the police investigating the murders.Turnbull's experience as a Glasgow social worker enables him to draw authentic characters from every walk of life, and he perfectly captures the atmosphere of menace and fear overtaking the snowbound city.
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P Division #3
Fair Friday
Peter Turnbull
Bill McGarrigle is brutally beaten up in a Glasgow back alley, and the
police of P Division begin a full murder investigation. However, it is
the annual summer holiday and the heat is causing extra problems.
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P Division #6
Condition Purple
Peter Turnbull
In Glasgow one summer evening a young woman is frightened ... longing for the darkness which she can clutch to her like a comfort blanket.The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city somewhere. She knows
this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she
knows he knows where to find her because she stands every evening in an
alley off Blythswood Street.
The woman is just twenty-one years old. It is her death that will
trigger P Division’s latest investigation.
She was found at l0.00pm, the knife still in her throat. She was a
heroin addict and had the words `I belong to Dino' tattooed on her
groin. They were the only clues. Yet as the police interviewed anyone in
any way connected with her, combed the area, collated evidence, they
began to build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family,
lifestyle, which led to the arrest of a vicious murderer who had killed
and would kill again.
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P Division #8
Long Day Monday
Peter Turnbull
A young woman's body is found beside a
fluffy toy rabbit in a shallow grave in a farmer's field in Lanarkshire. When the fields surrounding the murder site produce several
additional victims, forensic evidence indicates that the victims unearthed had all endured a period of captivity before being murdered, so when a separate inquiry into the sudden disappearance of a young boy becomes linked to the murder investigation, the police realize that a serial killer is at work - and that they are racing against time
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P Division #10
The Man with No Face
Peter Turnbull
Ronald Grenn served four years for the robbery and arson of a fancy antiques store, a job far beyond his small-time skills but for which he did the time and kept his mouth shut. Hours after his release, he's found with his face blown off in a fancy part of the city. Under the bed in his mother's council flat are newspaper clippings concerning the abduction, eight years earlier, of Ann Oakley, an Edinburgh woman. Although the 1,000,000 ransom was paid, Ann was never found and the case was never solved. The investigation into Grenn's murder links him to the owner of the antiques store, whose stock, paid for by insurance as destroyed, is now appearing in a steady trickle in other dealers' showrooms. As the men of Glasgow's P-division find themselves pursuing a present-day murder and its connections to two older crimes, officer Ray Sussock finds previous failures coming home to roost just as he's about to retire.
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