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Dry Bones That Dream
Series: The Inspector Banks series
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See moreChief Inspector Banks investigates an execution-style murder but he starts to suspect the victim was leading a double life.
Chief Inspector Banks investigates an execution-style murder but he starts to suspect the victim was leading a double life.
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The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong β Stephen King
Dry Bones That Dream is the seventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Wednesday's Child.
A CONTRACT KILLING. A SECRET PAST. BANKS IS PUSHED TO HIS LIMIT.
2.47 a.m. Chief Inspector Alan Banks sees the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse to the barn. They then clinically executed him with a shotgun.
Clearly this is a professional hit - but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? The police investigation soon raises more questions than answers.
The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist...
Dry Bones That Dream is followed by the eighth book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Innocent Graves.
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Publishers Weekly praises Robinson's sharp characterisation, noting he is "steadily ascending toward the pinnacles of crime fiction."
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781509859115
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 July 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pan Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 266g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in Canada. His Inspector Banks series has won numerous awards in Britain, Europe, the United States and Canada and was adapted into the major British ITV drama DCI Banks starring Stephen Tompkinson. Aftermath, the twelfth in the series, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
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