Policier
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.
La nouvelle chef de la police du Yorkshire ayant placé la sécurité des campagnes au sommet de ses priorités, Alan Banks et les flics de la Criminelle sont sommés d'élucider au plus vite un simple vol de tracteur ! Mais cette affaire banale en cache peut-être une autre.
Kirsten, Martha. Deux femmes, victimes d'un viol, dont l'histoire nous est contée en parallèle.
Eastvale, c'est là que vient d'être muté l'inspecteur Banks, qui a quitté sans regret Londres. Mais, sous ce décor de carte postale, se cache une réalite beaucoup plus sombre, plus dangereuse, incarnée par un voyeur qui espionne les femmes la nuit dans leur chambre...
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...
Un été torride frappe le Yorkshire, ou un lac artificiel s'assèche et révèle les ruines du village englouti de Hobb's End. Le jeune Adam y joue, adorant ces ruines féériques, jusqu'au jour ou il decouvre les os d'une main, sous la boue. Alan Banks, policier mis sur la touche, est envoyé pour délier cette affaire. Les archives et les langues se délient, le destin tragique du village fantome remonte à la surface...
Un jeune homme, appartenant à un groupe néo-nazi, est retrouvé battu à mort dans une petite ville du Yorkshire. Une nouvelle enquête pour l'inspecteur Banks qui va plonger dans les tréfonds sinistres de l'âme humaine...
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.
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.
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