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The final novel in the bestselling Alan Banks crime series - and a NUMBER ONE PAPERBACK BESTSELLER (January 2024) - by the master of the police procedural.'The best mystery-procedural series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' STEPHEN KINGLate November, 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a ne...

***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Murder is only the beginning for Banks and his team . . .The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the death. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house ...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased—a policeman who has since gone missing.The dead woman in the car had been running from something—but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cab...

The twenty-fifth instalment of the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series'T****he master of the police procedural' Mail on Sunday'Robinson is prolific, but with each book he manages to ring the changes' Guardian*****The body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. Initially the evidence points to suicide, yet she didn't own a car and she didn't...

Two missing boys. One fatal shot.When DCI Banks and his team are called to investigate the theft of a tractor from a North Yorkshire village, they're far from enthusiastic about what seems to be a simple case of rural crime. Then a blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, two main suspects vanish without a trace, and events take a darkly sinister turn.As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels like the case is coming to a dead end. Unt...

"One of the finest police procedural writers around... [Standing in the Shadows] is as narratively rich and surprising as Robinson's best work. Knowing it's his last makes the reading bittersweet." — New York Times Book ReviewThe 28****th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls “the best now on the market.”In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns hom...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong.’ - Stephen KingDead Right is the ninth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Innocent Graves.A man is murdered. Riots are imminent. Banks must solve the case.The broken body of Jason Fox has been found in a dirty alleyway. At first it looks like a typical after-hou...

The 26th instalment of the Number One bestselling series'The master of the police procedural' Mail on Sunday'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' Stephen King***A skinny young boy is found dead - his body carelessly stuffed into a wheelie bin.Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to inve...

A terrible crime. No obvious motive. Banks is on the case.'Top-notch police procedure' Jeffery DeaverA shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Strugglin...

“Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail.”—Michael ConnellyOne of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with the 27th novel featuring the legendary detective Alan Banks in the mystery series Stephen King calls “the best now on the market.”When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive...

THE FINAL ACT.On a beautiful day in the Yorkshire Dales, a man's body is found hanging from a tree. Everything points to suicide ... but why would such a well-liked and successful man want to take his own life?When DI Annie Cabbot's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is as it seems and murder is seen as a solution to a problem. But the deeper he...

A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective’s most intense and gripping case yet – from an author hailed by Louise Penny as “a writer at the top of his game.”With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young woman’s death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly perpetrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands ac...