Peter Robinson
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Featuring a foreword by Michael Connelly, this relentlessly suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author of the Inspector Banks novels marks the first time that Peter Robinson has set a novel in America. Sarah Broughton has come a long way. She's the star of a hit cop show on TV. She lives in a beautiful California beach house. And-most importantly-she's put her dark past behind her… as well as her old...
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Pub. Date
2005
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On a warm summer night, an attractive woman hurtles north in a blue Peugeot with a hastily scrawled address in her pocket, while, back in London, a desperate man leaves an urgent late-night phone message on his brother's answering machine. By sunrise the next morning, the woman is found inside her car along an otherwise peaceful country lane, shot, execution-style, through the head. Welcome to the idyllic Yorkshire Dales, where Detective Inspector...
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Pub. Date
c2003
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For more than thrity-five years, Banks has not forgiven himself for having possibly caused the disappearance and presumed death of his best friend, Graham. When Graham's remains are recovered and another young man vanishes, Banks must draw on all his instincts, his experience, and his memories to find the truth -- and lay two innocents to rest.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's national treasures. And the second is a girl found on a remote roadside, her body broken, her life snuffed out. For Alan Banks, newly promoted to Detective Superintendent, the first case rips a tunnel into long-ago days of innocence and discovery, of music and light. And in the victim, he sees an opportunity for magic...
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Pub. Date
c2009
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While Banks is on holiday, Det. Insp. Annie Cabbot is called to the woods outside Eastvale, where a hanged manśoon identified as Mark Hardcastle, the local theater's set designerís discovered in a tree. What looks like a simple suicide takes an unexpected turn when the badly beaten body of Hardcastle's boyfriend, Laurence Silber, is found in Silber's posh home. Banks, who returns to assist in the investigation, uncovers Silber's past life as a spy...
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Inspector Banks volume 14
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A blistering tale of murder and betrayal that is as frightening, devastating, and hypnotic as flame itself.
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Inspector Banks volume 16
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Det. Insp. Alan Banks investigates the apparently motiveless murder of Nicholas Barber, a rock journalist from London visiting a small town near Banks's Yorkshire police precinct. Meanwhile, another mystery unfolds in a parallel narrative, the fatal stabbing of a young woman at a local rock festival back in 1969. Needless to say, the cases are intertwined as Banks puts it, "the past is never over" and part of the pleasure is trying to piece together...
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Pub. Date
1996
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Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the brutal murder of a teenage girl found strangled with the strap of her school satchel, who just happened to be the daughter of a powerful microelectronics financier--a man with access to high-level classified information.
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The night sky is ablaze as fire engulfs two barges moored end to end on a Yorkshire canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human beings. One was a reclusive and eccentric local artist, the other a junkie, a sad and damaged young girl. To the seasoned eye of Inspector Alan Banks, this horror was no accident, its method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend could have committed the dark act. And it isn't long before the...