‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ – Stephen KingA murdered girl. Dark Secrets. Deadlier lies.One foggy night, Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary’s, Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel.But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry, defence and classified information. And Deborah, it seemed, enjoyed keeping secrets of her own . . .With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gay, Inspector Alan Banks encounters many suspects, guilty of crimes large and small, in his search for the killer. And as he does so, plenty of sordid secrets and some lethal lies begin to emerge . . .Innocent Graves is a pulse-pounding instalment in Peter Robinson’s acclaimed Inspector Banks series – which became the major British ITV Drama DCI Banks. If you enjoyed it then don’t miss the next in the series, Dead Right.Critical acclaim for the Inspector Banks series:‘A powerfully moving work’ – Ian Rankin‘Top-notch police procedure’ – Jeffery Deaver‘A wonderful novel’ – Michael Connelly‘An addictive crime-novel series’ – The New York Times‘A guaranteed page-turner’ – Daily Mirror‘Demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can’t . . . A considerable achievement’ – The Guardian‘One of the most authentic and atmospheric of crime series’ – Independent‘The master of police procedural’ – The Mail on Sunday‘Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers’ league’ – The Times‘Banks is genuinely human, rather than a hard man’ – The Observer‘Move over Ian Rankin – there’s a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author . . .’ – Independent on Sunday
