Peter Robinson

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The classic first novel in Peter Robinson's internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series!
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has recently relocated from London to Eastvale, a quiet town in the Yorkshire dales, seeking to escape to stress of city life....

The fourth installment of Robinson's internationally betselling Inspector Banks series
It began with a faceless, maggot-ridden corpse in a tranquil, hidden valley above the village of Swainshead. Or did it really begin with the unsolved murder in the same area over five years earlier? The villagers, especially those who frequent the White Rose, are annoyingly silent. Among the suspects are the Collier brothers, Stephen and Nicholas, from...

The sixteenth novel in the acclaimed Inspector Banks series
Richly textured with the music and conflicting mores of 1960s Britain, Piece of My Heart weaves between two eras as it explores just how dangerously things can go awry when one generation is estranged from the next, when fathers no longer understand their daughters.
1969: Yorkshire’s first outdoor rock festival has just finished, and the psychedelic pastoral band...

Chris rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before.

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, Cold Is the Grave—the eleventh installment—is the darkest and grittiest mystery yet in the bestselling Inspector Banks series.

In recent years, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks's career has been stalled—and in fact, very nearly destroyed—by the petty animosities of his senior officer Chief Constable Jeremiah "Jimmy" Riddle. But when nude pictures...

Widely acclaimed as Robinson's best and most ambitious novel, In a Dry Season—the tenth book in the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series—takes the series to chilling new heights.
During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the Reservoir, revealing the ruins of Hobb's End, the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom. When a boy finds a skeleton buried in the ruins, Detective Chief Inspector Alan...

The story begins with a stolen tractor, hardly a job for DCI Banks and his Homicide and Major Crimes team, but the new police commissioner has put rural crime high on her agenda. At the same time, an apparent crime scene is discovered in an old hangar at an abandoned WWII airfield. In addition, two local lads are missing. Just as Banks and his team are getting a grip on all these incidents, a car accident in a freak hailstorm turns up a gruesome discovery....

The fifth installment of Robinson's Inspector Banks series.
The body of Caroline Hartley is found one evening before Christmas by her lover, Veronica Shildon. It is a cosy scene-log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree-but Caroline is naked and covered in blood. Detective Constable Susan Gay is the first detective at the scene. She has recently been promoted to C.I.D. and the case soon takes on overwhelming...

A gripping novella from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Banks Mysteries and a "master of the art" (TheBoston Globe). Retired Cambridge professor Donald Aitcheson loves scouring antiquarian bookshops for secondhand treasures-as much as he loathes the scribbled marginalia from their previous owners. But when he comes upon an inscription in a volume of Robert Browning's poetry, he's less irritated than disturbed. This wasn't...

When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. The deeper Banks looks into the old case, the more he begins to feel that he has to solve...