Inspector Banks Mystery S.
4 total works
‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King
From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes A Necessary End, book three in Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series.
Peace destroyed. Lives in ruin. Banks must race to find the killer . . .
Everyday life in Eastvale is shattered when a policeman is stabbed to death after an anti-nuclear demonstration turns violent. Superintendent ‘Dirty Dick’ Burgess, Banks’s nemesis, descends with vengeful fury on those he deems responsible.
Inspector Banks is uneasy about Burgess's mishandling of the case. Despite being warned off, he puts his career in jeopardy to continue his search for the truth – knowing that, if he wants to keep his job, he must beat Burgess to the killer . . .
'Inspector Banks – a man for all seasons, he knows that often the answers to the clues he seeks are hidden in his own heart' – Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning
Adapted into a major ITV drama, DCI Banks.
A Necessary End is the third entry in this Yorkshire-based crime series. It is followed by book four, The Hanging Valley.
Wednesday's Child is the sixth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Past Reason Hated.
When two social workers, investigating reports of child abuse, appear at Brenda Scupham's door, her fear of authority leads her to comply meekly with their requests. Even when they say that they must take her seven-year old daughter Gemma away for tests . . .
It is only when they fail to return Gemma the following day that Brenda realizes something has gone terribly wrong.
At the same time, Banks is investigating a particularly unpleasant murder at the site of an abandoned mine. Gradually, the leads in the two cases converge, guiding Banks to one of the most truly terrifying criminals he will ever meet . . .
Wednesday's Child is followed by the seventh book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Dry Bones That Dream.
It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically blasted him with a shotgun.
Clearly this is a professional hit - but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? For the police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. And who, exactly, is Robert Calvert?
The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist...
`The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling, evocative, deeply nuanced works of art.' Dennis Lehane
`Peter Robinson's cast of characters is vividly drawn. Well written... highly entertaining.' Scotland on Sunday