Policier
Two barges have burned down to the water line and two corpses have been found, one on each of them. Before long, Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague Annie Cabbot uncover more than enough motives for murder - and more than one person with a reason to kill.
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...
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.
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.
Chief Constable Riddle asks Chief Inspector Alan Banks to quietly find his runaway teenage daughter, who has appeared on an Internet pornography site. Banks returns with Emily Riddle, but she experiences more trouble at home in Yorkshire, England.
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.
Two barges have burned down to the water line and two corpses have been found, one on each of them. Before long, Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague Annie Cabbot uncover more than enough motives for murder - and more than one person with a reason to kill.
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.
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.
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...
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