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DCI Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. The new novel from Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson.
Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case...
Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league - Marcel Berlins, The Times
Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure. - Jeffery Deaver
Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation - Observer
Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader - Independent
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Watching The Dark - Peter Robinson
Masterminds | How did you start writing Sleeping in the Ground?
Masterminds | Where do you write?
Masterminds | Literary Fiction vs Crime Fiction
Masterminds | Why crime fiction?
Masterminds | How did your first book get published?
Masterminds | Technology in Crime Novels
Masterminds | Getting it right: The police procedure
Masterminds | Keeping track of the details
Masterminds | Why do people love a crime series?
Watching The Dark - Peter Robinson