Showing results by author "Peter Robinson" in Thriller & Suspense

Dry Bones That Dream is the seventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Wednesday's Child. It was 2.47 a.m. when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ Stephen King Gallows View is the first novel in Peter Robinson's bestselling Inspector Banks series. NEW TOWN. NEW CASES. NEW DANGER. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently...

The Hanging Valley is the fourth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from A Necessary End. ‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King TWO MURDERS. A MISSING PERSON. A VILLAGE WITH A...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King The Sunday Times bestseller, Aftermath, is the twelfth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Cold is the Grave. A house of horror. A...

A Necessary End is the third novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from A Dedicated Man. In the usually peaceful town of Eastvale, a simmering tension has now reached breaking point. An anti-nuclear demonstration has ended in violence, leaving one policeman stabbed to...

A Dedicated Man is the second novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Gallows View. Near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale, the body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a dry stone wall. Harry Steadman has been brutally murdered. But who...

Past Reason Hated is the fifth crime novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, now a major British ITV drama DCI Banks. It should have been a cosy scene – log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive. For Caroline Hartley...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right. A lost village. Past crimes. Present evil. During a...

'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' Stephen King The Summer That Never Was is the thirteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Aftermath. A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is...

'A writer at the very height of his powers' – Ian Rankin Playing With Fire is the fourteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from The Summer That Never Was. In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrowboats catch fire on a dead-end stretch of the...

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ – Stephen King Cold is the Grave is the eleventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from In A Dry Season. A runaway girl. An inescapable past. Banks is...

Innocent Graves is the eighth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dry Bones That Dream. One foggy night, Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary's, Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel. But Deborah was...

Peter Robinson's psychological thriller Caedmon's Song follows two characters and their mysterious connection. On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. When she...

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the...

Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. Not Safe After Dark is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia, challenge all that we take for granted, lure us to new, exotic places only for us to wish we could run back home, and keep us up all night just waiting for the...

Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of more than twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of honored crime writers Agatha Christie, Malice Domestic, Volume 6 jumps the pond between Britain and America to deliver 100 percent pure suspense in all its spine-tingling glory. The ten mysteries included here are read by Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Reed Diamond, Judy Geeson, Patrick Macnee, and Emmy winners Juliet Mills and William Windom.

Ethan Chase’s old friend and mentor Mohammed provides Ethan with a clue that sends him on the trail of a priceless treasure that dried the River Jordan and laid low the walls of Jericho: the Ark of the Covenant, along with the lost wealth of King Solomon. Frankie and Mei once again join Ethan on a globe-trotting adventure that takes them from the deserts of the Middle East, to the streets of Rome, and to dangerous, uninhabited islands. Yet whispers of a race for a legendary relic travel far and reach dark corners of the world.

È una calda notte di giugno, e Kirsten sta tornando a casa dopo aver celebrato con i compagni la laurea. Mentre attraversa il parco, qualcuno la aggredisce con selvaggia violenza: quando si risveglierà dopo giorni di coma, ricorderà solo, come in un incubo, due figure che incombono su di lei, una bianca e una nera, e una mano callosa che la stringe; e scoprirà di avere terribili ferite inflitte con un coltello, e che nulla sarà più come prima. Altrove, in una cittadina di pescatori sulla costa dello Yorkshire arriva Martha, una giovane donna che sta scrivendo un libro.

En flok drenge leger uskyldigt i nærheden af Hindswell Woods, da de til deres gru opdager, at en mand har hængt sig i et træ. Manden viser sig at være en yngre, succesfuld scenograf ved navn Mark Hardcastle. Alt tyder på selvmord, men hvorfor dog tage sit liv, når man er på toppen af sin karriere?

Leeds, settembre 1969. Il primo festival rock all'aperto dello Yorkshire si è appena concluso sulle note dei Madd Hatters. Con gli occhi che bruciano per la stanchezza, Dave sta pulendo il prato, quando nota un sacco a pelo abbandonato. Lo tocca con la punta del piede: dentro c'è un corpo. Un drogato, pensa. Ma quando si china per guardare meglio si pente della propria curiosità. Leeds, ottobre 2005. L'ispettore Alan Banks si sta occupando dell'omicidio di Nick Barber, un giovane giornalista musicale.