The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Alan Banks series. Detective Inspector Banks had 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 ni
Peter Robinson - Inspector Banks 11 - Cold Is The Grave
β Scribed by Robinson, Peter
- Book ID
- 107875699
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 235 KB
- Series
- Inspector Banks 11
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girlβs father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man whoβs determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policemanβs career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banks β a father himself β dares not ignore as he follows its squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon after β gruesome, sensational, and, more than once β pulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle.
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