Policier
Le docteur Evelyn Sutcliffe est au service des urgences à l'hôpital lorsqu'on amène une femme dans le coma. Elle s'aperçoit que c'est shelley, sa collègue. Evelyn est persuadée que l'on a aidé Shelley à se suicider...
Une explosion nucléaire dans la mer d'Arabie : 6.000 morts et un porte-avions américain volatilisé. Alors que tout le monde croit à l'accident, le commandant Baldridge est persuadé que c'est un acte terroriste.
Et si le meilleur moyen de detruire l'Amerique etait encore d'utiliser contre elle ses propres armes ?
Police Constable Janet Taylor and her partner PC Dennis Morrisey answer a domestic dispute call. They not only come upon a gory, bloody scene, but eventually become part of it. Inspector Banks arrives to solve the complex case, but it's the aftermath of this case that takes him into the past to another horrifying series of murders.
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.
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.
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.
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...
En Californie pour soigner sa dernière désillusion amoureuse, Banks ignore que sa fille est tombée amoureuse de Jaff, dealer qui se fournit chez un des plus grands barons de la drogue. En rentrant en Angleterre, Banks se lance à la poursuite de Jaff, recherché par la police pour possession d'armes, et de sa fille.
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