A NECESSARY END – PETER ROBINSON

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I m wrong’ – Stephen King From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes A Necessary End, book three in Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series. Peace destroyed. Lives in ruin. Banks must race to find the killer . . . Everyday life in Eastvale is shattered when a policeman is stabbed to death after an anti-nuclear demonstration turns violent. Superintendent ‘Dirty Dick’ Burgess, Banks’s nemesis, descends with vengeful fury on those he deems responsible. Inspector Banks is uneasy about Burgess s mishandling of the case. Despite being warned off, he puts his career in jeopardy to continue his search for the truth – knowing that, if he wants to keep his job, he must beat Burgess to the killer . . . Inspector Banks – a man for all seasons, he knows that often the answers to the clues he seeks are hidden in his own heart – Michael Connelly, author of Fair Warning Adapted into a major ITV drama, DCI Banks. A Necessary End is the third entry in this Yorkshire-based crime series. It is followed by book four, The Hanging Valley.