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2014., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks novel Volume: 22Summary Note: The story begins with a stolen tractor, hardly a job for DCI Banks and his Homicide and Major Crimes team, but the new police commissioner has put rural crime high on her agenda. At the same time, an apparent crime scene is discovered in an old hangar at an abandoned WWII airfield. In addition, two local lads are missing. Just as Banks and his team are getting a grip on all these incidents, a car accident in a freak hailstorm turns up a gruesome discovery.
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2001., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks mysteries Volume: 12Summary Note: One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as "Chameleon." Now the fiend is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last. But is it? In Acting Detective Superintendent Alan Banks's mind too many questions remain unanswered at the chamber of horrors the press will dub the "House of Payne." Because the darkness has not yet lifted, the casualties are still mounting...and there are still monsters loose in the world.
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c2008., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: CRIME & MYSTERY FICTION. A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annies investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe.
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks mysteries Volume: 19Summary Note: "Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner. Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot. Doyle's daughter, Erin, is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while she's in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erin's boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And that's not the worst of it. Robinson's latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in."--Publisher.
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c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they'd return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before..."--Publisher.
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2018., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks series.Summary Note: A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why? Meanwhile a man in his 60s is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post-mortem findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity? As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate, Annie's father's new partner, Zelda, comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants - and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt is on.
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2013., McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: FP 20,000(CDN) The 21st Inspector Banks novel, following WATCHING THE DARK. A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with ¹5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex. Canadian author - Toronto.
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Ã2011., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic DCI B 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: DCI Banks Volume: 1Summary Note: Playing With Fire (Episodes 1 and 2): The discovery of two bodies in a suspected arson lead Banks and Cabbot to uncover an art forgery scheme. When another victim is found, Banks is determined to find the man behind the forgery ring before he can strike closer to home. Friend of the Devil (Episodes 3 and 4): This one has a lot of murder. A corpse in a storage room is investigated by Banks as Cabbot takes on a mutilated body on the Moors. When the identity of the brutalized girl is revealed, Cabbot seeks to connect this death with that of someone on the force. Meanwhile, Banks has difficulty determining how his crime was enacted. Cold is the Grave (Episodes 5 and 6): A robbery suspect is murdered, and the team must uncover a complicated series of events. Was the robbery staged? And when bodies keep popping up, it leads Banks to suspect that someone very close to him might be involved in these criminal dealings.
![DCI Banks, season 1 [DVD] (2011). Season one.](/Library/images/~imageCT83412.JPG "DCI Banks, season 1 [DVD] (2011). Season one.")
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2007., M & S Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author balances horror with humour, police procedures with the nuances of all-too-human emotions, and endings with the promise of new starts. Once again, Robinson transcends the usual limits of the genre in this dazzling novel about the obsessive power of vengeance.
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2008., McClelland & Stewart Summary Note: The author balances horror with humour, police procedures with the nuances of all-too-human emotions, and endings with the promise of new starts. Once again, Robinson transcends the usual limits of the genre in this dazzling novel about the obsessive power of vengeance.
![Friend of the devil [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT77264.JPG "Friend of the devil [eBook]")
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1992., Scribner's : Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: MYS Fic Rob Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
