Friend of the Devil: An Inspector Banks Mystery

• McClelland & Stewart
• ISBN: 978-0-7710-7543-8
• August 2008
• $11.99

On a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a quadriplegic woman in a wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. Miles away in a storeroom in the Maze, a medieval warren of yards and alleys at the heart of Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman lies sprawled on a heap of leather scraps. She, too, has been murdered. Their bodies are discovered around the same time that DI Annie Cabbot wakes with a severe hangover in the bed of a young man she barely recognizes.

From these three strands, Peter Robinson weaves a complex and compelling story.