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Chelsea smile / Peter Turnbull.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sutton : Severn House, 2007.Description: 180 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780727877376(lg print)
  • 9781847510037(tradepbk)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a new case for Hennessey and Yellich.
Five years after Duncan Percival is rendered a vegetable after a vicious attack, he finally dies. It is now a murder investigation and DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich are brought in to renew the evidence and re-interview the suspects, along with DS Thompson Ventnor who worked on the original investigation.

As they delve deeper, bodies start turning up and the links to a criminal gang become clear. But who is the leader of the organization, and who is pulling the strings now that Duncan Percival is dead? Hennessey, Yellich and Ventnor are drawn into York's criminal underworld where grasses are punished and the gruesome Chelsea Smile is the favoured method of retribution...

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Booklist Review

Brit businessman Duncan Percival dies five years after being viciously attacked. His attackers were never found, but now that it's a murder investigation, detectives Hennessey and Yellich draw the case. Then links to other cases appear, murders in which the victims' faces have been slit to form the Chelsea smile. Hennessey and Yellich soon learn that Duncan Percival was the secret head of the local mob. If Percival is dead, who's taken his place at the helm? A solid British police procedural with a plot full of unexpected twists and a pair of protagonists who can play in the same league as any of Britain's top cop duos. --Emily Melton Copyright 2007 Booklist

Kirkus Book Review

The death of a man left comatose by an attack five years ago turns a Grievous Bodily Harm case into a murder for Hennessey and Yellich. Even before he slipped out of his persistent vegetative state into the great beyond, the evidence was mounting that Duncan Percival was not simply the retired businessman he pretended to be. Although his much younger wife Margaret demurely disclaims any knowledge of his mercantile dealings, Thompson Ventnor, the York police officer who worked the original case, has turned up evidence that they included prostitution, protection and extortion. Now that Percival is dead, Chief Inspector George Hennessey and Sergeant Somerled Yellich (Chill Factor, 2005, etc.) are making the rounds once more. Although they're lucky enough to link the attack almost immediately to the murder a few days later of elderly Julian and Julia Saffer, they're frustrated by two developments. Virtually everyone they speak to, from lifer Eddie Challis to gofer Mule Mulligan to aspiring gang member Adam Palfrey, is a lowlife involved in Percival's criminal empire who refuses to grass on his mates, and the few unfortunates who do dare to say anything soon follow their former boss into eternity, their cheeks slit in a graphic warning to other like-minded souls to keep their mouths shut. This time, though, the daisy chain of interrogations is unrelieved by humor, penetration, variety or surprise, making this one of sturdy Hennessey and Yellich's dullest procedurals. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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