Peter Turnbull – författare

A Compelling Mystery Unfolds as Detective Inspector Hennessey Investigates a Couple''s Disappearance and Double MurderFor years, Max and Amanda, a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road couple, had enjoyed each other''s company in their modest home. With adult children, the two seemed to have everything they could want: health, some wealth and happiness. Until one day when they vanish, leaving behind no trace.Called in for the case, Detective Inspector George Hennessey, whose own life bespeaks horrible tragedy, suspects foul play. His hunch proves keen when the bodies of the missing couple turn up in a shallow grave. But this macabre discovery is only the beginning of a case that will test the mettle of the entire police force.The couple had lost a small fortune right before their death, ruling out robbery as a motive. Unbeknownst to each other, they had been involved in illicit liaisons. Their only son has been acting strangely and a shocking family secret arises.In search of answers, Hennessey instead finds a maze littered with conflicting clues and misinformation. And instead of lacking suspects, there are all too many people who wished the deceased couple harm. Fear of Drowning is a compelling and gritty British detective novel filled with suspense and mystery.

All 18 episodes of the police procedural featuring the Glaswegian cops of P DivisionGlasgow''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 disappear, 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 TurnbullDramatised by Stephen MulrineProduced and directed by Hamish WilsonRecorded in a BBC studio and on location in Glasgow©2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd