Inspector Alan Banks mysteries
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Gallows view , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 1
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
1988
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7 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past, a shady land-developer, Harry's editor and a local thriller writer are all suspects--and all are figures from Harry's previous, idyllic summers in the dale. A young girl, Sally Lumb, knows more...
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A necessary end , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 3
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The hanging valley , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 4
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Past reason hated: an Inspector Banks mystery , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 5
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Wednesday's child , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 6
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
1994
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8 sound discs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this chilling and surprising classic tale, the brutal, execution-style murder of a nondescript accountant opens up a deadly Pandora's Box of lies, double lives, blood, and deception for Chief Inspector Alan Banks.In Britain, Inspector Banks investigates the death of an accountant executed in a barn on his farm while his wife and daughter were tied in the house. An examination of the victim's books indicates he was laundering money for a foreign...
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Innocent graves: an Inspector Banks mystery , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 8
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Blood at the root: an Inspector Banks mystery , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 9
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In a dry season , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 10
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Cold is the grave , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 11
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Aftermath , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 12
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Close to home , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 13
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Playing with fire , Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 14
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15) Strange affair
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Inspector Alan Banks heads to London after receiving a disturbing call from his estranged brother, while back in Eastvale, Detective Annie Cabbot's investigation of a young woman's death uncovers a connection to someone close to Annie.
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 17
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
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372 p. ; 24 cm.
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot must work together to solve two chilling crimes. On loan to a sister precinct, Cabbot draws the first case. Karen Drew seems to have lived a quiet and nearly invisible life for the past seven years. Try as she might, Annie turns up nothing in the woman's past that might have prompted someone to wheel her out to the sea and to her death. Meanwhile, in the Hayley Daniels murder, Banks has...
19) Bad boy
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Inspector Alan Banks mysteries volume 19
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
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341 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet. A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Banks. Since he's away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin--a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon,...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
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354 p. ; 24 cm.
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When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.
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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...
22) Abattoir blues
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014.
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367 p. ; 25 cm.
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When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, and a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar, DCI Banks and his team are baffled. Then a motor accidents throws up a gruesome discovery, and the investigation spins into high gear. Struggling to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, Banks and his team are in a race against time.
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[2016]
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"Inspector Alan Banks--hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly--must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's national treasures. The second is a girl found on a remote...
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At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, there is something unresolved about this case. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the detective digs deeper into the crime, deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks though he knew about the events outside the chapel. When...
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Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team. A young local student's body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. The death looks like suicide, but there are too many open questions for Banks and his team to rule out foul play. The victim didn't own a car. She didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where-and when-did she die? Did someone move her, and if so, why? A man in his sixties is found...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2020]
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327 pages ; 24 cm.
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In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was...
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"When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers--and the culprit--among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape....
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[2023]
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In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing. Nick is the prime suspect. The case quickly goes cold, but Nick cannot let it go. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice's murderer--but his obsession leads him down a dangerous path. Decades later,...
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The price of love and other stories
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