Inspector Alan Banks mysteries
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Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors-among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed. When an elderly woman is found brutally slain in...
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 2
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Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1988
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 3
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c1989
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 4
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Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
1992, c1989
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 5
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Scribner's
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal, and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's lifeand death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas. Leaving her past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified more than a few. And now she is dead, clothed only in her unshared mysteries and her blood. In this season of giving and forgiving, Banks is eager...
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Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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It was a crime of staggering inhumanity: a seven-year-old girl taken from her working class Yorkshire home by an attractive young couple posing as social workers. Chief Inspector Alan Banks feels certain little Gemma Scupham is dead, yet the motive for her kidnapping remains a mystery. No ransom is ever demanded, nor could Gemma's tortured, guilt-ridden mother afford to pay one. And when the body of a young man is discovered in an abandoned mine,...
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 7
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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In Britain, Inspector Banks investigates the death of an accountant executed in a barn on his farm while his wife and daughter were tied in the house. An examination of the victim's books indicates he was laundering money for a foreign dictator.
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 8
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 9
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997
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English
10) In a dry season
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 10
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Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 11
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
13) Close to home
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 13
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English
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A long-hidden horror has been unearthed, dragging a tormented policeman into a past he could never truly forget no matter how desperately he tried. A heinous crime that occurred too close to home still has its grip on Chief Inspector Alan Banks?and it?s leading him into a dark place where evil still dwells. Because the secrets that doomed young Graham Marshall back in 1965 remain alive and lethal, and disturbing them could cost Banks much more than...
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 14
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W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
15) Strange affair
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English
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Inspector Alan Banks heads to London after receiving a disturbing call from his estranged brother, while back in Eastvale, Detective Annie Cabbot's investigation of a young woman's death uncovers a connection to someone close to Annie.
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 17
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks has...
19) Bad boy
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 19
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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"Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet. A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Banks. Since he's away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin--a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon,...
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c2013
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English
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When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 21
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
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"As Banks and his team follow what few clues they have, desperate to find the missing boy, who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves branching out in different directions. As the end game becomes a race against time, even Banks's team isn't safe from the rage of the hunted animal"--
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 23
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Inspector Alan Banks--hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly--must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's national treasures. The second is a girl found on a remote...
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At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the detective digs deeper into the crime, deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks though he knew about the events outside the chapel. When...
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"Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team. A young local student's body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. The death looks like suicide, but there are too many open questions for Banks and his team to rule out foul play. The victim didn't own a car. She didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where--and when--did she die? Did someone move her, and if so, why? A man in his sixties is found...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was...
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 27
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers--and the culprit--among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape....
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"In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice's murderer--but his obsession leads him down a dangerous path. Decades later,...
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The price of love and other stories
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