Inspector Banks Novels Close to Home, Book 13, (Paperback)

from SquirrelHead

Close to Home gives us two story lines to follow. Both of course involve DCI Banks. In present time Alan Banks is on a holiday in Greece, trying to get rest after a particularly harrowing case from the last book. While there, he reads a newspaper account about skeletal remains being found in York...

from jepeters333

The remains of a young man who disappeared in 1965 have been discovered in the neighborhood where Inspector Banks grew up. As Banks gathers clues abouut this death, he remembers his own friendship with the victim when they were schoolboys. When a teenager disappears from the same area, Banks feel...

from the.ken.petersen

You've got to love a DI Banks book. I took a break from reading this series because I didn't want to gorge all the goodies in one sitting. The lure has become too much and I returned to the fold with The Summer... I bought it as an omnibus with Cold is the Grave, interestingly, the book presents ...

from Romonko

The Inspector Alan Banks series is incredible! It just keeps getting better and better, and Alan Banks is a wonderful character. A good policeman, but a man with many flaws and uncertainties which he always seems to work his way through when he's working on a case. I have read a lot of mysteries ...

from neddludd

Robinson's mysteries are replete with critiques of modern-day culture and also contain the best descriptions of getting turned on to music that I've ever read. I actually sent him fan mail when I read a passage describing how he had discovered Dylan; his character's experience matched my real lif...