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Sleeping in the Ground

The 24th DCI Banks novel from The Master of the Police Procedural

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Sleeping in the Ground

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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 The thrilling twenty-fourth instalment in Peter Robinson's Number One bestselling Banks Series.

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.

But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for.

When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late.

(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2017 Eastvale Enterprises Inc. Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Murder Banking Exciting Suspense

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Critic reviews

The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong.
Top-notch police procedure
A mighty force to be reckoned with in crime fiction
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.
Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation
Long may Peter Robinson keep writing these books! I envy anyone who has not yet discovered this series
Robinson's interrogations, many of them conducted in pubs, have the rare quality of steadily illuminating and thickening both the speakers and their subjects. The result is a slow-burning intensity that deepens from beginning to end
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.
A canon that is on the way to rivalling Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot . . . Superbly textured, this dark story reveals that Banks is growing even more suspicious and melancholy as he grows older - which makes him even more captivating.
All stars
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As a big fan of the DCI Banks mysteries this is one of the best yet. Well crafted and gripping to the end.

Excellent

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Really compelling, human story telling, from all perspectives. Loved it. Cannot wait for the next one.

Best one for a few books

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Usual good plotting and characterisation with up to date, methodology and good development of other members of the team .

Peter Robinson readers will enjoy this.

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This is another good story from dci banks I love these books you get immersed and can't put it down. Narrator was a pleasure to Liston too.

Sleeping in the ground

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I’ve listened or read all the books in the Alan Banks detective series and have to say the present book is the least enjoyable owing to a thin story padded out by far too much irrelevant ramblings not least the long sections devoted to the simplistic psychological speculations of a profiler. The book is full of psychological navel-gazing by Banks about his past loves and missed opportunities for relationships. Altogether the book has far too much ‘psychology’ and not enough detection.

The author has always had a propensity to insert too much of, I guess, his musical taste and opinions, but in this book it is excessive and self-indulgent. We also don’t need to know every detail of what people are wearing or the decor of rooms. It all smacks of an author tired of his successful series and merely fulfilling the need for an annual book.

The narrator is excellent.

Surprisingly tedious and self-indulgent

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