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Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case, from New York Times best-selling author Peter Robinson.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased - a policeman who has since gone missing.
The dead woman in the car had been running from something - but she didn't run far or fast enough....
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New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author Peter Robinson-a riveting double homicide leaves two seasoned detectives baffled as they race against the clock before more corpses surface.
Two murders . . . two towns . . .A woman sits in a wheelchair perched on a cliff high above the sea, her throat slit from ear to ear . . .In a maze of narrow alleys behind a market square, a teenaged girl has been murdered after a night of drunken revelries...
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From the winner of Britian's prestigious Diamond Dagger Award, comes a beautifully written, multilayered psychological thriller Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Now Roote is sending out strange and threatening letters and Pascoe fears there is worse to come. This time he's determined to get his man. In a brilliant novel of psychological suspense, acclaimed...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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Andy Dalziel had decided he would not be able to solve the disappearance of three young girls, and after twelve years, he finally forgot about it, but now children are vanishing again and Andy knows that the two cases are connected.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels. Ever since the publication of his first mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks, Peter Robinson has been steadily building a reputation for compulsively readable and perceptive novels that probe the dark side of human nature. Plumbing...
11) In a dry season
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When water drains from a man-made reservoir, a forgotten town is discovered, and when local residents find a human skeleton, Inspector Alan Banks is called in to solve a murder that is more than forty years old.
12) Bad boy
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Inspector Banks's holiday at Fisherman's Wharf is cut short when his daughter Tracy is kidnapped by her roommate's boyfriend, who is hiding a secret that threatens Tracy's life.
13) Ruling passion
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid). With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends--the chief suspect--is missing....
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2019]
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English
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Mystery stories by the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author, "one of the masters of the modern police procedural" ( The Sunday Telegraph ) A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls-as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe-in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe. A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself....
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HarperCollins
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[2019]
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English
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"Dialogues of the Dead is a bridge that spans the classic English whodunit and the dark heart of contemporary crime fiction, the serial-killer novel ... .The fertility of Hill's imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight." -- Val McDermid Normally, there would be nothing sinister about a death by drowning and a motorcycle fatality-had these tragic occurrences not been predicted before the fact...
18) Midnight Fugue
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Reginald Hill, award-winning author of The Price of Butcher's Meat and Death Comes for the Fat Man , returns with Midnight Fugue , a riveting new crime novel featuring Yorkshire coppers Dalziel and Pascoe as they tackle the case of a detective who went missing seven years ago under suspicious circumstances. Taking place within the space of a single October Sunday and alternating between Mid-Yorkshire and London, Midnight Fugue is a riveting, complex...
19) A Pinch of Snuff
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Yorkshire s detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an undeniably lively mystery of murder and illusion ( Kirkus Reviews ). Reginald Hill raised the classical British mystery to new heights when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det.Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt. Peter Pascoe ( The New York Times Book Review ). Their chafing differences in education, manners, technique, and temperament made...
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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"Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." - Boston Globe There is no end to the praise mystery writer Reginald Hill has already earned for his British police procedurals featuring Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe and Detective Superintendent "Fat Andy" Dalziel. Having recently bested Harlan Coben, Val McDermid, Michael Connelly, and James Patterson for the Crime Writers Association's Mystery and Thriller People's Choice Dagger, the...
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