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Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he went to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a PhD in English at York University. He has taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, 1992-93. His first novel, Gallows View (1987), introduced Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. It was short-listed for the John Creasey Award in the UK and Crime Writers of Canada best first novel award. A Dedicated Man followed in 1988 and was short-listed for the CWC's Arthur Ellis Award. A Necessary End and The Hanging Valley, both Inspector Banks novels, followed in 1989, and the latter was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. Both received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly in the US.

The eighth Inspector Banks novel, Innocent Graves (1996) was picked as one of Publishers Weekly's best mysteries of 1996 and selected as "page-turner of the week" by People magazine. Innocent Graves was also nominated for a Hammett Award for "literary excellence in the field of crime writing" by the International Association of Crime Writers, and won the author his second Arthur Ellis Award for best novel. In a Dry Season, the tenth in the series, won the Anthony and Barry awards for best novel and was nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, Macavity and Arthur Ellis Awards. In 2001, it also won France's Grand Prix de Litt rature Polici re and Sweden's Martin Beck Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book of 1999. The next book, Cold is the Grave, won the Arthur Ellis Award and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Aftermath appeared in 2002 and made the top ten in both the UK and Canadian bestseller lists, where it reached number one.

Available Books by Peter Robinson

	DCI Banks: Playing with Fire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330544368 RRP: $18.99 A new edition of Robinson's acclaimed novel, coinciding with a major new UK ITV adaptation. 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 hav...
	Before the Poison Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781444704853 RRP: $19.99 Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his hand to an atmospheric and suspenseful standalone novel. Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to Yorkshire with his beloved wife Laura. Now he's back in the Yorkshire Dales, but Laura is dead, and Chris needs to make a new life for him...
	Dci Banks: Cold is the Grave Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330544382 RRP: $22.99 Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with another man in London and his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Constable Riddle, it is time to ring the changes. Perhaps a move to the National Crime Squad? Perhaps a second chance with Sandra? But then late one night he is summoned to Riddle's house and his plans take a surprising new turn....
	Before the Poison Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781444704839 RRP: $49.99 ...
	Flipback Edition: Piece of My Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781444730081 RRP: $19.99 A stunning DCI Banks novel, by Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson. Published for the first time in flipback - the new, portable, stylish format that's taken Europe by storm. As volunteers clean up after an outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman, wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case,...
	Before the Poison Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781444704846 RRP: $32.99 Through the years of success in Hollywood composing music for the world's most lauded films, Chris always promised his wife they would return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now, after his wife's death, Chris feels he must not forget his promise.Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to compose ...
	Bad Boy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836972 RRP: $19.99 Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner. Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eas...
	Price of Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340997918 RRP: $19.99 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. A...
	All the Colours of Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836941 RRP: $19.99 A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of ...
	Friend Of The Devil Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836910 RRP: $19.99 When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a gr...
	Piece Of My Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836880 RRP: $19.99 As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with or less regard for young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smok...
	An Inspector Banks Novel: Strange Affair Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491655 RRP: $19.95 The gripping new Inspector Banks novel from the bestselling author of 'Playing With Fire'. When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale, where a...
	Caedmon's Song Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330426725 RRP: $19.95 'A long, oily blackness punctuated by quick, vivid dreams . . . They were all just dreams. She couldn't possibly see those things, could she? Her eyes were closed. And if they really happened, then she would have screamed out from the pain, wouldn't she?' On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil m...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Past Reason Hated Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491624 RRP: $19.95 DCI Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle, asks for his help - for it is well know that Riddle detests Banks. But Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and he wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to bring her home without fuss. Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living in luxury with a South London gangster, and at first she r...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: The Hanging Valley Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491648 RRP: $19.95 A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no one is wiling to talk. Banks's frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that this latest case may be connected with an unsolved murder in the same area five years ago. Among the silent suspects are ...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Aftermath Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330489348 RRP: $19.95 No. 35, The Hill, the home of Terry and Lucy Payne is about to become infamous. PCs Janet Taylor and Dennis Morrisey went there to simply sort out an alleged domestic dispute. What they find leaves Lucy Payne injured, Dennis Morrisey dead and Janet Taylor fighting off a murderous attack from Terry Payne. And in the corner of the basement lies the body of missing teenager Kimberley Myers. Actin...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: A Dedicated Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491600 RRP: $19.95 The second Inspector Banks novel. The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past, a shady land-developer, Harry's editor and a local thriller writer are all suspects - and all are fi...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: A Necessary End Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491631 RRP: $19.95 In this third Inspector Banks novel, violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to death. At first there are over a hundred suspects, but then things narrow down to the people who live on "Maggie's Farm", an isolated house high on the daleside. Among the suspects is Dennis Osmond, a social worker involved with Jenny Fuller, Inspector Ba...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Gallows View Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330491594 RRP: $19.95 Great news for Peter Robinson fans - the first Inspector Banks novel is back in print. A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; 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 recently moved to the...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Cold Is The Grave Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330482165 RRP: $19.95 DCI Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle, asks for his help - for it is well known that Riddle detests Banks. But Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and he wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to bring her home without fuss. Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living in luxury with a south London gangster, and at first she re...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Dead Right Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330482172 RRP: $19.95 Inspector Alan Banks' ninth case sees him investigating the murder of a young racist. A man who, it seems, has lived and died by the sword. But it is never that simple A night at the opera had offered Chief Inspector Alan Banks a temporary respite from his troubles - both at work and at home. But the telephone call summoning him to Eastvale brings him back to reality with a bump. For the bod...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Innocent Graves Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330482189 RRP: $19.95 The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks series. Detective Inspector Banks has seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking in the quiet Yorkshire village of Eastvale. Deborah Harrison had been found one foggy night in the churchyard behind St Mary's, strangled with the strap of her school satchel. But Deborah ...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: Dry Bones That Dream Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330482202 RRP: $19.95 No one could believe that a man like Keith Rothwell would be murdered. Except Keith Rothwell was leading a double life - as Inspector Alan Banks is about to find out. Two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically blasted him with a shotgun. Clearly this is a professional hit - but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? Fo...

	Before the Poison Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780062004796 RRP: $33.95 Returning to the Yorkshire dales of his youth after his beloved wife dies, composer Chris Lowndes, after discovering that the old house he has just purchased was the scene of a murder more than 50 years before, becomes obsessed with solving the case despite warnings to leave it alone. Original. 100,000 first printing....
	Before the Poison Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780062107039 RRP: $33.95 Returning to the Yorkshire dales of his youth after his beloved wife dies, composer Chris Lowndes, after discovering that the old house he has just purchased was the scene of a murder more than 50 years before, becomes obsessed with solving the case despite warnings to leave it alone. Simultaneous. (mystery & detective)....
	Bad Boy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061362965 RRP: $10.95 Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot, partner to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, uncovers a plot involving Banks' daughter, Tracy, who becomes the hostage of a devious psychopath....
	Ronald Reagan Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781402780578 RRP: $32.95 A special assistant to Ronald Reagan provides an illustrated commemoration of the fortieth president's life, along with six annotated landmark speeches....
	Bad Boy Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780061362958 RRP: $33.95 Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot, partner to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, uncovers a plot involving Banks' daughter, Tracy, who becomes the hostage of a devious psychopath....
	Bad Boy Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780062002150 RRP: $33.95 Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot, partner to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, uncovers a plot involving Banks' daughter, Tracy, who becomes the hostage of a devious psychopath....
	The Price of Love and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061809491 RRP: $19.95 An Edgar Award-winning author offers two novellas and a number of short stories--some of which feature his popular character, inspector Alan Banks--in a collection that explores the disparate motives that move us to harm one another. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....
	Gallows View Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780062009388 RRP: $19.95 Provided by publisher....
	All the Colors of Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061362941 RRP: $10.95 When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide, and Inspector Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing is as it seems....
	The Price of Love and Other Stories Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061885006 RRP: $33.95 Offers two novellas and a number of short stories--some of which feature the author's popular character, Inspector Alan Banks--in a collection that explores the disparate motives that move people to harm one another....
	All the Colors of Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061719752 RRP: $33.95 The author of Friend of the Devil and Piece of My Heart presents a latest installment of a series featuring Alan Banks that pits the intrepid detective inspector against a formidable adversary as well as his own personal demons. (Suspense)...
	Piece of My Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060544362 RRP: $10.95 As he probes the killing of a freelance music journalist, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds his investigation journeying back in time more than thirty years and into the heart of the mystery surrounding a decades-old crime....
	The Greener Meadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780691127644 RRP: $23.95 ...
	Designing Accessible Technology Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781846283642 RRP: $360.95 ...
	Playing With Fire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060824648 RRP: $19.95 ...
	Playing With Fire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061031106 RRP: $9.95 Investigating a dual arson case that has claimed three lives on an English canal, Detective Inspector Banks teams up with fellow investigator Annie Cabot and discovers that the victims are linked to an art forgery operation. Reprint....
	The First Cut Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060735357 RRP: $18.95 From the Edgar-winning author of Close to Home, Playing with Fire, and Aftermath comes a meticulously crafted novel of psychological suspense, human evil, and revenge. Reprint....
	The Hanging Valley Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380820481 RRP: $10.95 The discovery of a faceless, maggot-ridden corpse leads Chief Inspector Banks to search for clues in a mystery that involves a five-year-old murder and the disappearance of a woman....
	Aftermath Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380811816 RRP: $10.95 Inspector Banks takes a journey into the dark side of human nature when he is called in to investigate the disappearance of several girls in Yorkshire, a crime that takes a deadly turn when their bodies are discovered by two police officers answering a domestic disturbance call. Reprint....
	Wednesday's Child Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380820498 RRP: $10.95 Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the chilling case of Brenda Scupham, a welfare mother who unwittingly hands her seven-year-old daughter, Gemma, over to child abductors claiming to be social workers. Reprint....
	Past Reason Hated Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380733286 RRP: $10.95 In the fifth novel of the British detective series, Chief Inspector Alan Banks explores the turbulent life of Caroline Hartley, a cafe manager and amateur actress who becomes the victim of a crime of passion. Reprint....
	In a Dry Season Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380794775 RRP: $10.95 When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot are called in to investigate....
	Blood at the Root Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380794768 RRP: $10.95 When the body of a young man is found stomped to death, Detective Chief Inspector Banks believes that he has an open-and-shut case, but he soon finds himself thrust into a violent maelstrom of hate, greed, and twisted neo-Nazi philosophy...
	A Dedicated Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380716456 RRP: $10.95 When a well-liked, respected former university professor is bludgeoned to death in his adopted village in the Yorkshire Dales, Chief Inspector Alan Banks must sift through dark secrets to solve this seemingly motiveless murder...
	A Necessary End Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380719464 RRP: $10.95 When a peaceful demonstration in the palatial Yorkshire village of Eastvale ends in mass arrests and the death of a constable, Chief Inspector Alan Banks is determined to prevent further bloodshed. Reprint....
	Bernard Spencer Complete Poetry Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781852248918 RRP: $75.95 Bernard Spencer's work has been out of print for many years. This new edition will be welcomed by readers and academics, and will help redress the recent neglect of his work. Publication is timed to coincide with a major conference on the work of Bernard Spencer at Reading University in 2011....
	Close to Home Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061031090 RRP: $10.95 Unable to forgive himself for his possible role in the disappearance of a childhood friend, detective inspector Alan Banks finds himself confronting the unsolved case thirty-five years later when his friend's body is discovered. Reprint....
	Cognition and Second Language Instruction Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780521003865 RRP: $86.95 ...
	Cold Is the Grave Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380809356 RRP: $10.95 Maverick police inspector Alan Banks finds himself drawn into London's underworld when he aids his archrival Chief Constable Riddle, after the chief's missing daughter turns up on a pornographic website....
	Events Management Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781845936822 RRP: $117.95 ...
	Final Account Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060502164 RRP: $10.95 When a wealthy accountant is brutally murdered in front of his terrified wife and daughter, Inspector Banks teams up with Detective Constable Susan Gay and discovers that the victim, a seemingly quiet family man, had been living a secret double life. Reprint....
	Friend of the Devil Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060544386 RRP: $10.95 When she assists a neighboring precinct with an investigation into the murder of a disabled woman, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot makes an unexpected link between that case and another, a discovery that reveals the work of a serial killer....
	Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780805853513 RRP: $317.95 ...
	Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780805853520 RRP: $130.95 ...
	Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781588112316 RRP: $107.95 ...
	Innocent Graves Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380820436 RRP: $10.95 When a teenage girl is found murdered in the peaceful village of Eastvale, Inspector Banks and his colleague Susan Gay are forced to dig beneath the surface of small-town secrets and evil to uncover a depraved killer. Reprint....
	Operations Management Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780199593583 RRP: $129.95 An integrated media and text solution which clearly demonstrates the relevance of operations to everyday business activities, through extensive use of text and running video case studies from companies such as Ikea, Domino's, EasyJet, and Ticketmaster. A truly engaging package for those with little knowledge or experience in operations management....
	Operations Management in the Travel Industry Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781845935030 RRP: $99.95 Covers the knowledge and skills necessary for effective and successful management, including finance, marketing, individual and corporate social responsibility, meeting customer expectations and managing, motivating and retaining employees....
	Plants for Ponds, Rock and Water Features Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781844767519 RRP: $23.95 ...
	Playing With Fire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061470523 RRP: $20.95 Investigating a dual arson case that has claimed three lives on an English canal, Detective Inspector Banks teams up with fellow investigator Annie Cabot and discovers that the victims are linked to an art forgery operation. (Suspense)...
	Poems Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781847491855 RRP: $21.95 Acclaimed for the terseness and simplicity of her language, her poems show an acute power of observation and deep psychological introspection, revealing a mind akin to Emily Dickinson's and Sylvia Plath's, but also a unique and unmistakeably original voice....
	Poetry & Translation Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781846312182 RRP: $204.95 ...
	Research Themes for Tourism Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781845936846 RRP: $263.95 ...
	Second Language Task Complexity Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9789027207197 RRP: $321.95 ...
	Second Language Task Complexity Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9789027207203 RRP: $107.95 ...
	Strange Affair Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780060544348 RRP: $10.95 Heading to London after receiving a disturbing call from his estranged brother, Inspector Alan Banks makes disconcerting revelations about his brother, while back in Eastvale, detective Annie Cabbot's investigation into a young woman's death uncovers a startling connection to someone close to Annie. Reprint....
	Task-Based Language Learning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781444350234 RRP: $72.95 ...
	Tasks, Abilities, and Aptitudes Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781934078006 RRP: $247.95 ...
	The Selected Poetry And Prose of Vittorio Sereni Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226748788 RRP: $68.95 ...
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	All the Colors of Darkness Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780061362934 When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. Inspector Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing is as it seems....
	All the Colours of Darkness Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780340836927 A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hipswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Ev...
	All the Colours of Darkness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836934 A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hipswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Ev...
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	An Alan Banks Mystery: Aftermath Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333907429 No. 35, The Hill, the home of Terry and Lucy Payne is about to become infamous. PCs Janet Taylor and Dennis Morrisey went there to simply sort out an alleged domestic dispute. What they find leaves Lucy Payne injured, Dennis Morrisey dead and Janet Taylor fighting off a murderous attack from Terry Payne. And in the corner of the basement lies the body of missing teenager Kimberley Myers. Actin...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: In A Dry Season Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330392013 During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground . . . until he unearths a human skeleton. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman wh...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: In A Dry Season Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333904480 During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground . . . until he unearths a human skeleton. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman wh...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: The Summer That Never Was Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330489355 Whilst holidaying in sunny Greece, Inspector Alan Banks reads in the papers of the discovery of a boy's bones in Cambridgeshire. As he reads on, he learns of the deceased's identification, and his curiosity turns to shock. The boy was Graham Marshall, Banks's boyhood friends, who went missing during his newspaper round over thirty years ago. Back in Yorkshire, he learns that another b...
	An Alan Banks Mystery: The Summer That Never Was Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333907443 Whilst holidaying in sunny Greece, Inspector Alan Banks reads in the papers of the discovery of a boy's bones in Cambridgeshire. As he reads on, he learns of the deceased's identification, and his curiosity turns to shock. The boy was Graham Marshall, Banks's boyhood friends, who went missing during his newspaper round over thirty years ago. Back in Yorkshire, he learns that another b...
	An Inspector Banks Mystery: Wednesday's Child Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330482196 For Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe, the abduction of a young girl brings back dreadful memories of the Moors Murders . . . When two social workers investigating reports of child abuse appear at Brenda Scupham's door, her fear of authority leads her to comply meekly with their requests. Even when they say that they must take her seven-year-old daughter Gemma away for tests . . ....
	An Inspector Banks Novel: A Strange Affair Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333989357 The chilling new Inspector Banks novel from the bestselling author of 'Playing With Fire'. When he receives a mysterious and disturbing telephone call from his brother Roy, Banks heads off to London to search him out. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale. A young woman has been found dead in her car . . . With Banks'...
	Bad Boy Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780340836958 The new DCI Banks from Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson. 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 Doyle's will not be the o...
	Caedmon's Song Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781405041669 'A long, oily blackness punctuated by quick, vivid dreams . . . They were all just dreams. She couldn't possibly see those things, could she? Her eyes were closed. And if they really happened, then she would have screamed out from the pain, wouldn't she?' On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil m...
	Cold Is The Grave Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333905197 In Peter Robinson's latest mystery in his award-winning Alan Banks series, the Detective is sent to the capital in search of a missing runaway - with tragic results. DCI Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss, Chief Superintendent Riddle, asks for his help - for it is well known that Riddle detests Banks. But Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and he want Banks ...
	Football Days: Classic Football Photographs Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781840008432 An intimate view of football, this book not only represents a chronological record of the whole football experience, but also brings together all the strands of the game by providing a visual gallery of players, coaches, fans, grounds, personalities, media and politics - not to mention socio-cultural issues. The chapters are divided into key subjects, each representing a distinctive element of th...
	Friend of the Devil Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780061367021 Assisting a neighboring precinct with an investigation involving the murder of a disabled woman, detective inspector Annie Cabbot makes an unexpected link between the case and another involving a teen's death, a discovery that reveals the work of a serial killer. (Suspense)...
	Friend Of The Devil Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836903 Banks is back in this stunning new novel from bestselling author Peter Robinson. When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly March morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narro...
	Gallow's View Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780380714001 Yorkshire Chief Inspector Alan Banks, helped by psychologist Jenny Fuller, uncovers startling secrets in the town of Eastvale, which is troubled by a Peeping Tom and mischievous teenagers on the verge of violence...
	Gardening With Rock & Water Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781844761715 Whether your dream is a simple rock-edged pool, a complex stream or a free-standing feature, such as a Cobble Fountain or Brimming Urn, this book gives advice on installing a range of stunning features. A comprehensive "Plant Directory" provides information on a range of water lilies and lotus, deep-water aquatics, oxygenating and free floating plants, marginals and moisture-lovers as wel...
	Liverpool Accents: Seven Poets & A City Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780853236719 ...
	Meet Inspector Banks Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781405047524 Gallows View / A Dedicated Man / A Necessary End In one volume, the foundations of the internationally bestselling series discover how it all began... Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. Unfortunately, depravity and violence are not unique to large cities. His new home, the quaint little village of Eastdale, seems to have more than it...
	Not Safe After Dark: And Other Short Works Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781405021128 The complete, heart-thumping collection of short tales from the author of the bestselling Inspector Banks series. Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the s...
	Piece of My Heart Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780060544355 As he probes the killing of a freelance music journalist, Detective Inspector Alan Banks finds his investigation journeying back in time more than thirty years and into the heart of the mystery surrounding a decades-old crime....
	Piece Of My Heart Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340836873 As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, straitlaced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with or less regard for young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoki...
	Playing With Fire Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780333989333 'All Banks knew, as he forced himself to be detached and concentrate on the job at hand, was that a fire scene was unique and presented a number of problems he simply didn't encounter at other crime scenes. Not only was fire itself incredibly destructive, but the act of putting out a fire is destructive, too.' In the early hours of the morning, a man reports a fire on two old canal bo...
	Pond Basics Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780806922874 ...
	Practical Gardening Handbook: Rock And Water Plants Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780754813804 This lavishly illustrated book shows how choosing the right plants can turn the simplest pond or water feature into a dramatic statement. Each garden plan includes a detailed plant list identifying the plants used in order to help readers create their own successful water gardens. An all-important plant directory details the main plant groups, including submerged, deep-water, marginal and moistu...
	Price of Love Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780340919514 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. A...
	Price of Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340919521 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 back streets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. ...
	Splash!: Rock And Water Design In Gardens Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781842157725 Water is a welcome element in any garden, having the power to soothe or excite. Whether you want a small feature or a series of waterfalls this practical and extensive guide provides a host of inspirational ideas for using water in your garden. Step-by-step photographic sequences and cross-sectional artworks show how to build a range of features, including a Rock-edged Pool, a Wildlife Pool and ...
	Teach Yourself: Shorthand: Pitman 2000 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340859483 Goal: professional success. Content: - Improve your reading efficiency - Analyse text more effectively - Maximise your time Do you need to learn shorthand quickly? Do you want to increase your speed? Are you taking a first or refresher course in Pitman 2000 shorthand? This book gives you the basic theory and working vocabulary in clear and easy stages. Each section contains a new set of soun...
	The Price of Love and Other Stories Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780061809484 Offers two novellas and a number of short stories--some of which feature the author's popular character, Inspector Alan Banks--in a collection that explores the disparate motives that move people to harm one another....
	Water Gardens In A Weekend Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780600601883 Projects for 1, 2 or 3 Weekends. Usher the calming sound and beauty of water into your garden in the space of a weekend with this enlightening reference to creating water features. Leading feature designer, Peter Robinson guides you step-by-step through the design and construction of simple, ornamental and internationally-inspired water features, supported by luxurious colour photographs and wor...
	Water Gardens in a Weekend Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780600614753 ...

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