Policier
L'inspecteur Banks refuse de croire, comme Joanna Passero de l'Inspection générale de la police, que l'inspecteur Bill Quinn, tué d'un flèche dans un centre de rééducation, était corrompu. Les recherches de Banks le conduisent sur la piste d'une jeune Anglaise disparue six ans plus tôt en Estonie.
Un jeune homme, appartenant à un groupe néo-nazi, est retrouvé battu à mort dans une petite ville du Yorkshire. Une nouvelle enquête pour l'inspecteur Banks qui va plonger dans les tréfonds sinistres de l'âme humaine...
Un été torride frappe le Yorkshire, ou un lac artificiel s'assèche et révèle les ruines du village englouti de Hobb's End. Le jeune Adam y joue, adorant ces ruines féériques, jusqu'au jour ou il decouvre les os d'une main, sous la boue. Alan Banks, policier mis sur la touche, est envoyé pour délier cette affaire. Les archives et les langues se délient, le destin tragique du village fantome remonte à la surface...
La nouvelle chef de la police du Yorkshire ayant placé la sécurité des campagnes au sommet de ses priorités, Alan Banks et les flics de la Criminelle sont sommés d'élucider au plus vite un simple vol de tracteur ! Mais cette affaire banale en cache peut-être une autre.
Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won't let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you'd like to meet (and some you'd hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves. A dozen tales of mystery from Robinson, including one brand new Inspector Banks story.
Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won't let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you'd like to meet (and some you'd hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves. A dozen tales of mystery from Robinson, including one brand new Inspector Banks story.
Brenda Scupham's 7-year-old daughter, Gemma, is abducted by a man and a woman posing as social workers. As the days go by, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to lose hope of finding Gemma alive.
Detective Chief Inspector Banks is called to an isolated Yorkshire farmhouse, where accountant Keith Rothwell lies as a featureless corpse. Banks can discern nothing out of the ordinary after questioning Rothwell's exceptionally calm wife and daughter, who were tied up by the two hooded killers. Later, Banks discovers a money laundering scheme, a shifty solicitor, a second team of villains, and some mysteries about Rothwell himself.
When a drought dries up a reservoir that covers the abandoned English village of Hobb's End, a skeleton is found in a crumbling building. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and local detective Annie Cabbot untangle the World War II mystery that led to the young woman's death.
The murder of a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy family involves Banks in an investigation complicated by outside priorities. The new Chief Constable, a friend of the girl's industrialist father, presses for a quick arrest, and the police are led to Owen Pierce, a young teacher of troubled character. But Banks is not convinced -- there are too many loose ends, too many other suspects, too many secrets.
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