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! ( )