The body of a young man is discovered in plain sight, lying on the grass and visible from the famous York wall surrounding the city. It is not too long before DCI George Hennessey and DS Somerled Yellich learn the man’s identity: scion of a very vicious family known to run a particular housing estate where nobody would dare to cross them, under any circumstances. When they realize that the man was starved and tortured before being executed, Hennessey and Yellich know that it is a race against time to find and arrest the perpetrators before the family of the young man finds them….This is the 11th book in the Hennessey and Yellich series, which is set primarily in York and which features the DCI who is close to retirement and his DS, a much younger man with a family that includes an intellectually disabled son. I enjoy this series because it is very plain-spoken, a police procedural that is framed by the time periods in which the investigation occurs and that shows the step-by-step work that goes into solving a crime. I’m not sure that one needs to read these books in order, although I am trying to do so; in any event, this is a fresh entry into the series. Recommended! ( )

kind of boring ( )