Policier
Deux cadavres calcinés sont découverts au milieu des décombres d'une péniche.
Inspector Banks pursues a Peeping Tom while investigating the case of two amoral teenagers whose crimes are escalating from theft to violence.
Inspector Banks investigates the murder of a quiet historian, Harry Steadman, in the British Dales. The case becomes complicated when young Sally Lamb, the only witness to the murder, disappears. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language.
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.
Caroline Hartley, an actress in a local amateur production, is found brutally stabbed in the apartment she shares with her female lover. During his investigation, Inspector Banks visits the old London haunts that he patrolled as a young police constable. Winner of the 1994 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award for Fiction. Strong language, descriptions of violence.
The murder of a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy family involves Banks in an investigation complicated by outside priorities. The new Chief Constable, a friend of the girl's industrialist father, presses for a quick arrest, and the police are led to Owen Pierce, a young teacher of troubled character. But Banks is not convinced -- there are too many loose ends, too many other suspects, too many secrets.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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