Peter Robinson

Friend of the Devil: An Inspector Banks Novel

When Karen Drew is discovered in her wheelchair one chilly March day, staring out to sea with her throat cut, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, a 19-year-old girl is found raped and strangled after a night on the town, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. On the face of it, the two deaths have nothing in common. But as Annie peels back the layers of deception surrounding her investigation, she finds something disturbingly familiar in the case, a trail which leads inevitably back to Eastvale and the tangled darkness of a cobbled alley.
“The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are…the best series now on the market. In fact, this may be the best series of British novels since the novels of Patrick O’Brian. Try one and tell me I’m wrong.” – Stephen King