Watching the Dark Synopsis
DCI Alan Banks is back and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own.A respected officer convalescing at the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, DI Bill Quinn, is killed by a crossbow while on the facility's tranquil grounds, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos in his room. Soon after, Professional Standards Inspector Joanna Passero arrives in Eastvale and insists on working the case alongside a reluctant Banks, who's convinced a police officer shouldn't be deemed guilty without proper evidence.But the more they learn, the more likely it seems that Quinn wasn't all he was reputed to be, that his murder is linked to another vicious crime in Yorkshire and to a cold case the disappearance of a nineteen-year-old English girl, Rachel Hewitt, in Estonia six years earlier. Intricate, engrossing, and psychologically tense, the twentieth book in the internationally bestselling series by award-winning author Peter Robinson may be the most suspenseful Banks mystery yet.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780771076480 |
| Publication date: |
28th August 2012 |
| Author: |
Peter Robinson |
| Publisher: |
McClelland & Stewart |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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Peter Robinson Press Reviews
Praise for Peter Robinson:
'Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers league' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'Brilliant! ... Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.' Jeffery Deaver
'Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation' Observer
'Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader' Independent
About Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are twenty-two books in the bestselling DCI Banks series – the critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.
Peter Robinson's DCI Banks is now a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot. Peter's recent standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.
Author photo © Pal Hansen
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