Peter Robinson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team. A young local student's body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. The death looks like suicide, but there are too many open questions for Banks and his team to rule out foul play. The victim didn't own a car. She didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where--and when--did she die? Did someone move her, and if so, why? A man in his sixties is found...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the detective digs deeper into the crime, deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks though he knew about the events outside the chapel. When...
Author
Series
Inspector Banks volume 12
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 21 cm
Description
One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as "Chameleon." Now Payne is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last. But is it?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Inspector Alan Banks--hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly--must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. 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. The second is a girl found on a remote...
Author
Series
Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2004, ©1996
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
The murder of a teenage girl incites hatred, a shocking travesty of justice, and the devastation of a community in this chilling classic from the international bestselling author of "Close to Home."
12) Bad boy
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet. A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Banks. Since he's away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin--a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon,...
13) Strange affair
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Inspector Alan Banks tracks two seemingly separate murder cases. Things get strange when one stiff turns out to be Alan's estranged brother and the other turns out to be Roy's girlfriend.
Author
Series
Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2004, ©2003
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 18 cm
Description
There are human bones buried in an open field, the remains of a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five years ago ... and scarred a guilt-ridden friend forever. A long hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman back into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried.
Author
Series
Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When a faceless corpse is found near the English village of Swainshead, Inspector Alan Banks finds several suspects in the village.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks...
17) A dedicated man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999, ©1988
Physical Desc
340 pages : map ; 18 cm
Description
When a well-liked, respected former university professor is bludgeoned to death in his adopted village in the Yorkshire Dales, Chief Inspector Alan Banks must sift through dark secrets to solve this seemingly motiveless murder.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
358 p.
Description
Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the...
Author
Series
Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2000, ©1989
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 18 cm
Description
Chief Inspector Alan Banks is confronted with a baffling murder mystery when a young police constable is stabbed to death at an antinuclear demonstration attended by hundreds of people.