Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson

Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson

A POLICEMAN ON TRIAL. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre. When compromising photos are found in his room, DCI Banks is brought in to investigate. And it isn't long before he's assailed on all sides... There's Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. There's Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation and beset by her own doubts and demons. And then there's the girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who holds the key to the secret at the heart of the case... A thrilling Alan Banks mystery from the master of the police procedural, Peter Robinson.

Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league * Marcel Berlins, The Times *
Brilliant!. . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure. * Jeffery Deaver *
Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation * Observer *
Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader * Independent *

Peter Robinson's DCI Banks became a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) as DI Annie Cabbot.

Peter's standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada. Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and divided his time between Richmond, UK, and Canada until his death in 2022.

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ISBN 13	9781444704891
ISBN 10	1444704893
Title	Watching the Dark
Author	Peter Robinson
Series	Dci Banks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2013-01-17
Number of pages	432
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