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Sumérgete en las intrigantes investigaciones del Inspector Jefe Alan Banks, quien opera en el desafiante entorno de Yorkshire, Inglaterra. Esta serie combina magistralmente misterios cautivadores con un profundo análisis de personajes y las complejidades de la vida moderna. Banks se enfrenta a casos que ponen a prueba su agudeza mental y su integridad mientras busca la verdad en las sombras de la sociedad.

In a Dry Season
Bad Boy
Careless Love
The Hanging Valley
Bad boy
All The Colors of Darkness

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    Gallows View

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    Welcome to the first of an exciting police procedural series.A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people, and an old woman may or may not have been murdered.Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman who recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life.In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with local feminists plus his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts, both Jenny and Banks’s wife, Sandra, are drawn deeper into the events. The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense and surprising climax.

    Gallows View
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    A Dedicated Man

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    A well-liked, respected historian/archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder--and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.

    A Dedicated Man
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    A Necessary End

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    In the tradition of Ian Rankin and Elizabeth George, this masterful novel of suspense—from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson—spins a story of professional jealousy that could result in more than one murder. A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ends with fifty arrests—and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID Superintendent Richard Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds. Almost immediately, Burgess descends with vengeful fury upon the members of a sixties-style commune—while Banks sifts through the rich Yorkshire soil around him, turning over the earthy, unsettling secrets of seemingly placid local lives. Crossing Burgess could cost the Chief Inspector his career. But the killing of a flawed Eastvale policeman is not the only murder that needs to be solved here. And if Banks doesn't unmask the true assassin, his superior's misguided obsession might well result in further bloodshed. Peter Robinson once again explores the human psyche in a novel that demonstrates how our weaknesses can lead to deadly consequences.

    A Necessary End
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    The Hanging Valley

    • 336 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura
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    No one dreamed something so hideous could grow in so beautiful a place . . . Many who visit the valley are overwhelmed by its majesty. Some wish they never had to leave. One didn't, a hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hovers over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents who guard shattering secrets of sordid pasts and private shames. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that both the grim truth and a cold-blooded killer are hiding here, far from the city, the noise, and safety. And he's determined to walk into the valley of death to expose them both.

    The Hanging Valley
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    Past Reason Hated

    An Inspector Banks mystery

    • 464 páginas
    • 17 horas de lectura
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    It should have been a cosy scene - log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive. For Caroline Hartley, lying quietly on the couch, has been brutally murdered. Chief Inspector Alan Banks is called to the grim scene. And he soon has more suspects than he ever imagined. As he delves into her past, he realises that for Caroline, secrecy was a way of life, and her death is no different. His ensuing investigation is full of hidden passions and desperate violence...

    Past Reason Hated
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    Wednesday's child

    An Inspector Banks mystery

    • 368 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura
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    Two social workers, investigating reports of child abuse, take seven year-old Gemma Scupham away for tests. When they fail to return her, Gemma's mother calls in the police. Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe suspect the case, and others, may be linked to satanic ritual abuse

    Wednesday's child
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    Dry bones that dream

    • 384 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    Two masked men walk mild mannered accountant, Keith Rothwell, out of his farmhouse and clinically blow him away with a shotgun. Clearly a professional hit - but no one could believe that a man like Keith could be murdered. Chief Inspector Alan Banks discovers Rothwell's secret life.

    Dry bones that dream
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    Innocent Graves

    • 304 páginas
    • 11 horas de lectura
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    'If you haven't caught up with Peter Robinson already, now is the time to start.' - "Independent Sunday". One foggy night, Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary's, Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel. But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry, defence and classified information. And Deborah, it seemed, enjoyed keeping secrets of her own...With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gray, Inspector Alan Banks moves among the many suspects, guilty of crimes large and small. And as he does so, plenty of sordid secrets and some deadly lies begin to emerge...'The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative, deeply nuanced works of art'. - Dennis Lehane.

    Innocent Graves
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    Blood at the Root

    • 296 páginas
    • 11 horas de lectura
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    New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson brings us a tantalizing tale of suspense in this classic Inspector Banks thriller.In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered by an unknown assailant. The shattering echoes of his death will be felt throughout a small provincial community on the edge—because the victim was far from innocent, a youth whose sordid secret life was a tangle of bewildering contradictions. Now a dedicated policeman beset by his own tormenting demons must follow the leads into the darkest corners of the human mind in order to catch a killer.Delving into the complicated human psyche, Blood at the Root showcases Peter Robinson’s singular talent in an exceptional novel of suspense that will linger in readers’ minds long past the final page.

    Blood at the Root
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    In a Dry Season

    An Inspector Banks mystery

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    Brutal murder just after World War II is solved 40 years later. Most of the physical evidence of the town has been drowned with the building of a reservoir.

    In a Dry Season
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    Playing with Fire

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    Fire—It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes. The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human beings. To the seasoned eye, this horror was no accident, the method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend could have committed it. There are shocking secrets to be uncovered in the charred wreckage, grim evidence of lethal greed and twisted hunger, and of nightmare occurrences within the private confines of family. A terrible feeling is driving police inspector Alan Banks in his desperate hunt for answers—an unshakable fear that this killer's work will not be done until Banks's own world is burned to the ground.

    Playing with Fire
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    Playing With Fire

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    In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the scene, DCI Banks and DI Annie Cabbot are summoned. But by the time they arrive, only the smouldering wreckage is left, and human remains have been found on both boats.

    Playing With Fire
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    Ne Jouez Pas Avec Le Feu

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    Dans le petit matin glacé de janvier, deux péniches en feu sur un canal du Yorkshire. Au milieu des décombres, deux cadavres calcinés. Pour l'inspecteur Banks, le meurtre ne fait aucun doute. Mais qui était visé ? Tina, la jeune droguée de seize ans, ou Tom, le mystérieux artiste solitaire ? Lorsque l'incendiaire frappe à nouveau, les talents d'enquêteur de Banks sont mis à rude épreuve...

    Ne Jouez Pas Avec Le Feu
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    Strange Affair

    • 396 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    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 Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior -- and former lover -- Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope . . . and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.

    Strange Affair
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    Skrawek mego serca wyd. 2

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    „Seria powieści o inspektorze Banksie to najlepsze, co ma do zaproponowania współczesny rynek wydawniczy. Właściwie od czasów Patricka O’Briana nie było czegoś podobnego w brytyjskiej literaturze. Spróbujcie choć jednej i powiedzcie mi, że się mylę”. Stephen King „Wciągający, wielowątkowy, pełen retrospekcji kryminał z muzycznym tłem”. Magazyn Literacki Książki Jest rok 1969. W Wielkiej Brytanii szaleje rock’n’roll, a po całym kraju krążą narkotyki oraz miłujący pokój hipisi. Tuż po zakończeniu jednego z rockowych festiwali policja odnajduje śpiwór, w którym spoczywa ciało młodej kobiety, porzuconej pośród pofestiwalowego bałaganu. Aby rozwiązać zagadkę tej śmierci, inspektor Stanley Chadwick musi wbrew swoim uprzedzeniom nawiązać kontakt z przedstawicielami subkultury, której z całego serca nie znosi. Ślady prowadzą do członków kontrowersyjnego zespołu Mad Hatters. Trzydzieści lat później inspektor Banks otrzymuje wezwanie na scenę zbrodni i rozpoczyna śledztwo w sprawie zamordowania dziennikarza piszącego dla „Mojo” artykuł na temat kariery Mad Hatters. Wraz z inspektor Cabbot odkrywają, że zamordowany dziennikarz był na tropie mrocznej tajemnicy z przeszłości zespołu... Kiedy dwójka policjantów zaczyna coraz mocniej interesować się fenomenem Mad Hattersów, bardzo szybko dochodzą do wniosku, że ich pokolenie, głoszące wolną miłość, obrało bardzo niebezpieczną ścieżkę.

    Skrawek mego serca wyd. 2
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    Piece of My Heart

    • 480 páginas
    • 17 horas de lectura
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    Inspector Banks must re-trace an old investigation made by a WWII veteran to unravel the mysterious events surrounding a 60's rock band and an unsolved murder.

    Piece of My Heart
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    PRZYJACIÓŁKA DIABŁA WYD. 2

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    Dwa morderstwa w dwóch różnych miastach. Inspektor Anna Cabot i detektyw Alan Banks na tropie pary sadystycznych morderców. Peter Robinson od ponad dwudziestu lat kontynuuje swą kryminalną serię,powiększając z roku na rok grono wiernych fanów.Pośród opuszczonych nadmorskich klifów znaleziono ciało sparaliżowanej kobiety z podciętym gardłem, a kilka kilometrów od tego miejsca, w Eastvale, w mrocznym labiryncie średniowiecznych uliczek, zwłoki zamordowanej i zgwałconej dziewiętnastolatki.Inspektor Anna Cabbot próbująca odkryć, kto zabił chorą kobietę oraz pracujący nad tajemnicą morderstwa w Eastvale detektyw Banks będą musieli połączyć siły, by rozwiązać zagadkę. Kiedy odkryją wreszcie prawdziwą tożsamość kobiety z klifu, okaże się, że do gry powróciła dwójka sadystycznych morderców, z którymi detektywi zetknęli się już w przeszłości.

    PRZYJACIÓŁKA DIABŁA WYD. 2
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    All The Colors of Darkness

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    In a world of terror and uncertainty, what does one small death matter? The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. Further investigation into the sad demise of Mark Hardcastle, the set designer for the local amateur theater company, leads to the corpse of Mark's older, wealthier lover, brutally bludgeoned to death. Suddenly the case demands the attention of Chief Inspector Alan Banks, called back from his vacation even though nothing suggests this wasn't a crime of passion followed by remorse and self-destruction. But machinations within the shadow world of secret government only add to the colors of darkness already shading this troubling affair. And a stubborn policeman who will not be frightened away could lose everything in one terrifying, explosive instant.

    All The Colors of Darkness
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    Bad boy

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    Things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks', is shot. Doyle's daughter Erin is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while she's in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erin's boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision.

    Bad boy
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    Bad Boy

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    When Juliet Doyle finds a gun in her daughter's bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is on a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm. No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences, or that the Doyles will not be the only family affected. Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate's boyfriend is attractive, ambitious, and surrounded by an intoxicating air of mystery. He's also very dangerous. When Tracy warns him the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him, and flattered by his attention, she agrees. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion. And on his return, unsuspecting of Tracy's precarious situation, Banks is plunged into his most terrifying, personal case yet.

    Bad Boy
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    Watching the dark

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    Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case ...

    Watching the dark
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    Children of the Revolution

    • 387 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    Ex-college lecturer Gavin Miller is found dead; his distorted body strewn across a disused railway track near his home. There's no sign of a struggle, and no concrete evidence except for one distinguishing package: £5,000 of cash, tucked inside the man's pocket. But when DCI Banks delves into Miller's past, he uncovers a troubled existence tarnished by accusations of abuse and misconduct which throws up an array of puzzling questions. What really occurred at the college where the victim used to teach? How was he embroiled in political activism at Essex University, over forty years ago? And what links him to an upstanding pillar of the community, who also harbours a dark secret from her past? One thing is clear: someone will stop at nothing - even murder - to prevent Banks from discovering the truth . . .

    Children of the Revolution
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    DCI Banks - 22: Abattoir Blues

    • 368 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with this gripping, powerful new novel featuring Inspector Alan Banks, hailed by Michael Connelly as "a man for all seasons." Life. Death. Good. Evil. Innocence. Guilt. All can be found IN THE DARK PLACES. It's a double mystery: two young men have vanished, and the investigation leads to two troubling clues in two different locations. As Inspector Banks and his team scramble for answers, the inquiry takes an even darker turn when a truck careens off an icy road in a freak hailstorm. In the wreckage, rescuers find the driver, who was killed on impact, as well as another corpse . . . that of someone who was dead well before the crash. Snow falls. The body count rises. And Banks, perceptive and curious as ever, feels himself being drawn deeper into a web of crime . . . and at its center something—or someone—dark and dangerous lying in wait. Vibrating with tension, ingeniously plotted, and filled with soul and poignancy, In the Dark Places is a remarkable achievement from this masterful talent. For readers of Michael Connelly, Louise Penny, and Tess Gerritsen, this is a novel to be read with white knuckles and a fast-beating heart.

    DCI Banks - 22: Abattoir Blues
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    Abattoir Blues

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    Two missing boys. A stolen bolt gun. One fatal shot. Three ingredients for murder. 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. But when a blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, and two main suspects vanish without a trace, events take a darkly sinister turn. As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels as if the case is coming to a dead end. Until a road accident reveals some alarming evidence, thought to be disposed, which throws the investigation to a frightening new level. Someone is trying to cover their tracks - someone with very deadly intent ...

    Abattoir Blues
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    When the music's over

    • 416 páginas
    • 15 horas de lectura
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In a remote countryside lane in North Yorkshire, the body of a young girl is found, bruised and beaten, having apparently been thrown from a moving vehicle. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a similar task - but the case Banks must investigate is as cold as they come. Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused at the centre of a historical abuse investigation and it's Banks's first task as superintendent to find out the truth. While Annie struggles with a controversial case threatening to cause uproar in the local community, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence, and as each steps closer to uncovering the truth, they'll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have guessed . . .

    When the music's over
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    Sleeping in the Ground

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    A terrible crime. No obvious motive. Banks is on the case. 'Top-notch police procedure' - Jeffery Deaver A 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. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for. When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late.

    Sleeping in the Ground
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    Careless Love

    • 352 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura
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    A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why? Meanwhile a man in his sixties is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post-mortem findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity? As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate, Annie's father's new partner, Zelda, comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants - and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt is on.

    Careless Love
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    Many Rivers to Cross

    • 384 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    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 wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was he discarded as rubbish, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the East Side Estate has seen him before. As the local press seize upon an illegal immigrant angle, and the national media the story of another stabbing, the police are called to investigate a less newsworthy death: a middle-aged heroin addict found dead of an overdose in another estate, scheduled for redevelopment. Banks finds the threads of each case seem to be connected to the other, and to the dark side of organised crime in Eastvale. Does another thread link to his friend Zelda, who is facing her own dark side? The truth may be more complex - or much simpler - than it seems . . .

    Many Rivers to Cross

  • The price of love

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    When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK. The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love . . .

    The price of love

  • The Price of Love and Other Stories

    • 618 páginas
    • 22 horas de lectura
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    This collection of short fiction showcases the author's renowned psychological insight and exceptional character development. Each story delves into complex human emotions and relationships, offering readers a compelling exploration of the intricacies of the human experience. With a blend of tension and depth, the narratives reflect the author's mastery in crafting engaging and thought-provoking tales that resonate long after reading.

    The Price of Love and Other Stories