Cold Is the Grave: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Novels, 11)

The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banks -- a father himself -- dares not ignore as he follows it's squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon after -- gruesome ,sensational, and, more than once -- pulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks' life is shaken to the core when he is unexpectedly pulled into the investigation of a young girl's disappearance in this shattering suspense novel from the hand of a modern master. Full of twists and surprises... Robinson shows he has only begun to dig into the personality of his tenacious, thoughtful inspector. Chicago Tribune When the nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a website, the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these aren't unusual circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still, its a case that Banksa father himselfdares not ignore as he follows its trail into teeming London. But when a series of gruesome murders follows soon after, Banks finds himself pulled into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle. Peter Robinson is at the height of his storytelling skills in this twisting novel of suspense that proves one can never escape their pastsespecially when there are sordid secrets waiting to be revealed.

Chief Constable Riddle, a man who has been actively working to destroy the career of Inspector Alan Banks, now needs Bank's help. Pictures of Riddle's missing daughter have turned up on a pornographic website. And though the Chief Constable abhors his methods, Banks is the one policeman who can best handle the investigation.

But the search for a missing and debased young woman is drawing Banks deep into London's sordid underbelly of drugs, crime, and sex. And the truth he finds down there in the muck could destroy him and his senior officer too.

Houston Chronicle

A winner....returning to the world of Banks is, as always, a pleasure.

First Chief Constable Jeremiah "Jimmy" Riddle has to put aside his animosities in order to ask Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks for help when "nude pictures of Riddle's runaway teenage daughter show up on a pornographic website." Then once the daughter is safely home again, a murder investigation leads Banks back to the private life of the Riddles.--Jacket Maverick police inspector Alan Banks finds himself drawn into London's underworld when he aids his archrival Chief Constable Riddle, after the chief's missing daughter turns up on a pornographic website Title from ebook title screen (viewed on June 2, 2006).