Inspector Banks

In the Yorkshire Dales, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, helped by psychologist Jenny Fuller, uncovers startling secrets in the town of Eastvale. A peeping Tom is frightening the women, glue-sniffing thugs are breaking into homes and an old woman may or may not have been murdered. As the tension mounts, both Jenny and Banks are drawn deeper into events.  Book 1 of series.

A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. When the identity of the body is revealed, it seems that his latest case may be connected with an unsolved murder in the same area five years ago.  Book 4 of series.

Who wanted Jason Fox dead? Chief Inspector Banks is puzzled about the death of an ordinary teenager. The discovery that Jason belonged to the Albion League, a white power organization, opens up new lines of enquiry.  Book 9 of series.

During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet is a magical playground . . . until he unearths a human skeleton. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but DCI Banks is determined to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time.   Book 10 of series.. .

When Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother, Roy, he heads to London to seek him out. But Roy seems to have vanished into thin air. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to Eastvale, where a young woman has been found dead in her car. As Banks begins to uncover a few troubling surprises, the two cases become sinisterly entwined.  Book 15 of series.

A woman is found murdered at a Yorkshire rock concert in 1969 and a new band, the Mad Hatters, could be involved. In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the death of a journalist writing a feature on the Mad Hatters. Could the two murders be linked?  Book 16 of series.

A man is found hanging in the woods. Everything points to suicide but DCI Banks delves into the superficially straightforward death to discover a murder that has its roots in post-war Berlin.  Book 18 of series.

DCI Alan Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate's boyfriend is good-looking and very dangerous. When Tracy warns him that the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion. Completely unsuspecting of Tracy's perilous situation, Banks is plunged into his most personal case yet.  Book 19 of series.

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.  Book 20 of series.

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. When DCI Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty of skeletons to come out of the closet....  Book 21 of series.

When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. As they struggle desperately to find the missing boy who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves in a race against time where it's their turn to become the prey . . .  Book 22 of series.

It's the coldest case possible - the 1967 rape of a young girl by a now elderly celebrity. But when he meets the victim, now a well-known poet, and hears her story, Banks is determined to see justice done. Meanwhile, Annie and Winsome are investigating the grisly murder of a teenage girl, who was thrown out of a moving van into a ditch in the middle of the night.  Book 23 of series.

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground, but DCI Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened, and why. As he digs deeper, he uncovers psychological puzzles that lead him to secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for. When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late.  Book 24 of series.

The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the death. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house - and the investigation pivots to the rape of a young girl that could cast the murders in an entirely different light.

Banks's friend Zelda, increasingly uncertain of her future in Britain's hostile environment, thinks she will be safer in Moldova hunting the men who abducted, raped and enslaved her. Her search takes her back to the orphanage where it all began - but by stirring up the past, Zelda is putting herself in greater danger than any she's seen before.

Book 27 in the Inspector Banks mystery series.