Macmillan crime
3 total works
Jo Bannister’s gritty police novels featuring DI Liz Graham have been likened to Lynda La Plante’s Prime Suspect.
‘The whole bloody town’s gone mad!’ exclaimed Superintendent Shapiro as Castlemere reels after a forty-eight-hour crime-fest including a ram-raid, a hostage crisis, a shocking rape and more . . .
Making no progress by conventional means, Detective Inspector Liz Graham and Detective Sergeant Cal Donovan go undercover in the search for leads.
But neither could have imagined the frightening ordeals they are both about to endure. Ordeals that will test their courage, strength and commitment to the absolute, terrifying limit . . .
‘The novel throbs with energy and the reader is absorbed from page one.’ Yorkshire Evening Press
‘Bannister keeps the suspense tight as a drum.’ Publishers Weekly
’An example of what can be made of a traditional police investigation by a first-class writer.’ Birmingham Post
It’s nice to have a hobby. Detective Sergeant Donovan likes motorcycling. Mikey Dickens enjoys armed robbery. And their chance meeting in a Castlemere petrol station leads to a hot pursuit, an horrific crash and a remarkable act of heroism as Donovan pulls the teenager from the burning wreckage.
The case against the young thief seems cut and dried, but the Dickens family are professional criminals and they concoct a clever defence. The tearaway, it seems, is going to walk . . .
Donovan, supported by Detective Superintendent Frank Shapiro and Detective Inspector Liz Graham, is determined to prove the boy’s guilt. But has he finally met his match? For as he goes after Mikey for a second time, events escalate out of his control, leaving him fighting for his reputation, his career – and even his life . . .
‘A superior police procedural with a strong cast.’ Guardian
‘Sensitive and intelligent writing produces a police procedural which ranks with the best of its kind . . . Highly recommended.’ Yorkshire Post
‘Gripping and original.’ The Scotsman