Cold is the Grave: The Summer That Never Was

by PeterRobinson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $5.23

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $5.23

  'A writer at the very height of his powers' IAN RANKIN. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with another man in London and his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Constable Riddle, it is time to ring the changes. Perhaps a move to the National Crime Squad? Perhaps a second chance with Sandra? But then late one night he is summoned to Riddle's house - and his plans take a surprising new turn. For the Chief Constable's sixteen-year-old daughter Emily has run away and for once Riddle wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to find her without fuss.

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $6.61

  In Peter Robinson's latest mystery in his awardwinning Alan Banks series, the Detective is sent to the capital in search of a missing runaway - with tragic results Dci Alan Banks is more than a little surprised when his boss. Chief Superintendent Riddle asks for his help - for it is well known that Riddle detests Banks. But Riddle's 16-year-old daughter has run away and he wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to bring her home without fuss. Banks tracks Emily to London, where she is living in luxury with a south London gangster, and at first she refuses to return with him. But when the young girl turns up at Banks' hotel that night, beaten and scared, he is pulled even deeper into events. Especially when three months later - supposedly back safely in the bosom of her family - Emily suffers a gruesome and decidediy suspicious death.