Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson - ISBN: 9781444704891
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A detective’s death unveils secrets, corruption, and a missing girl.

Watching the Dark

The 20th DCI Banks novel from The Master of the Police Procedural

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    12 February 2013

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Summary

Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn’t be deemed guilty without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months’ recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444704891
ISBN-10:1444704893
Author:Peter Robinson
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:12 February 2013
Weight:289g
Dimensions:34mm x 128mm x 196mm
Series:DCI Banks
A-Format
Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson - ISBN: 9781444704891
128 × 196 mm
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C-Format
A4
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Critics Review

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

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 The Author

Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are twenty books in the bestselling Inspector Banks series - the critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards and are published in translation all over the world.

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