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Chief Constable Riddle asks Chief Inspector Alan Banks to quietly find his runaway teenage daughter, who has appeared on an Internet pornography site. Banks returns with Emily Riddle, but she experiences more trouble at home in Yorkshire, England.
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken, hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Inspector Banks soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth, he pushes his inquiries a bit too far. Warned about this by his superiors, Banks must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar.
Eastvale, c'est là que vient d'être muté l'inspecteur Banks, qui a quitté sans regret Londres. Mais, sous ce décor de carte postale, se cache une réalite beaucoup plus sombre, plus dangereuse, incarnée par un voyeur qui espionne les femmes la nuit dans leur chambre...
Inspector Banks investigates the murder of a quiet historian, Harry Steadman, in the British Dales. The case becomes complicated when young Sally Lamb, the only witness to the murder, disappears. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language.
Caroline Hartley, an actress in a local amateur production, is found brutally stabbed in the apartment she shares with her female lover. During his investigation, Inspector Banks visits the old London haunts that he patrolled as a young police constable. Winner of the 1994 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award for Fiction. Strong language, descriptions of violence.
Deux cadavres calcinés sont découverts au milieu des décombres d'une péniche.
Two barges have burned down to the water line and two corpses have been found, one on each of them. Before long, Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague Annie Cabbot uncover more than enough motives for murder - and more than one person with a reason to kill.
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.
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.
Chief Constable Riddle asks Chief Inspector Alan Banks to quietly find his runaway teenage daughter, who has appeared on an Internet pornography site. Banks returns with Emily Riddle, but she experiences more trouble at home in Yorkshire, England.
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