Watching the Dark
On sale
16th August 2012
Price: £9.99
Genre
A POLICEMAN ON TRIAL.
Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre. When compromising photos are found in his room, DCI Banks is brought in to investigate. And it isn’t long before he’s assailed on all sides…
There’s Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. There’s Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months’ recuperation and beset by her own doubts and demons.
And then there’s the girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who holds the key to the secret at the heart of the case…
A thrilling Alan Banks mystery from the master of the police procedural, Peter Robinson.
Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre. When compromising photos are found in his room, DCI Banks is brought in to investigate. And it isn’t long before he’s assailed on all sides…
There’s Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. There’s Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months’ recuperation and beset by her own doubts and demons.
And then there’s the girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who holds the key to the secret at the heart of the case…
A thrilling Alan Banks mystery from the master of the police procedural, Peter Robinson.
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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
Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.
Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation
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
