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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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2011., Severn House Publishers, Limited Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Hennessey and Yellich investigate after a number of bodies are found in the kitchen garden of the home where the recently deceased owner was housebound for 25 years.
![Aftermath [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74675.JPG "Aftermath [eBook]")
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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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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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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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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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2019., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks series.Summary Note: When the body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheely bin on the East Side Estate, Banks and Annie have a homegrown murder case to solve. But Banks's attention is also on Zelda, who in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stonecold Eastern European sex traffickers who brought her to the UK.
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2017., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: An Inspector Banks mystery.Summary Note: "Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is called in to lead the investigation after a shocking mass murder occurs during a wedding outside a small church in the Yorkshire Dales. An exhaustive manhunt ensues and the shooter is run to ground as the investigation follows its inevitable course. But Banks, his colleague DI Annie Cabbot, and the newest and youngest team member, DI Gerry Masterson, are plagued by doubts as to exactly what happened in the churchyard that day, and why. Have they apprehended the right suspect? Is there more to uncover? Struggling with the death of an old flame and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller, a former love interest, Banks is compelled to dig deeper into the suspect's past and motivations, and as he does, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to long forgotten secrets. It's possible that eventually they'll provide the answers he is looking for, but will he piece together the clues in time?"--From publisher.
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2016., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Inspector Banks novel Volume: 23Summary Note: "When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused, and thrown from a moving van--before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted DSI Alan Banks must do the same--but the crime Banks is investigating is the coldest of cases. Fifty years ago Linda Palmer was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton, yet no investigation ever took place. Now Caxton stands accused, at the centre of a historical abuse investigation, and it's Banks's first task as superintendent to find the truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence. With his investigation uncovering things from the past that would rather stay hidden, he will be led down a path even darker than the one he set out to investigate..."--From publisher.
