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.
Kirsten, Martha. Deux femmes, victimes d'un viol, dont l'histoire nous est contée en parallèle.
En enquêtant sur l'assassinat du comptable Keith Rothwell, l'inspecteur Banks découvre que derrière la façade d'un homme apparemment sans histoire, il y avait une franche crapule...
En Californie pour soigner sa dernière désillusion amoureuse, Banks ignore que sa fille est tombée amoureuse de Jaff, dealer qui se fournit chez un des plus grands barons de la drogue. En rentrant en Angleterre, Banks se lance à la poursuite de Jaff, recherché par la police pour possession d'armes, et de sa fille.
A skeleton has been unearthed near Chief Inspector Alan Banks' home town, the bones of Banks' old friend Graham Marshall, who went missing in 1965. Finding himself a suspect in the old case, Banks investigates a similar one in Yorkshire, where a fifteen-year-old boy has been kidnapped. Working to clear his name and to find the missing boy, Banks finds the echoes of the past growing louder and more disturbing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inspector Banks pursues a Peeping Tom while investigating the case of two amoral teenagers whose crimes are escalating from theft to violence.
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