PETER ROBINSON

El inspector jefe Alan Banks se enfrenta al peor momento de su carrera: su hermano, Roy, ha desaparecido después de dejarle en el contestador un angustiado mensaje de socorro. Aunque se han distanciado y apenas se hablaban, el inspector jefeBanks, oficialmente de vacaciones, vuelve a Londres para investigar el paradero de Roy.La policia de Yorkshire esta a punto de emitir una orden de busca y captura sobre el propio Banks: una joven ha sido encontrada asesinada en su coche con un disparo en la sien y una unica pista. En el bolsillo trasero de su pantalon llevaba el nombre y la direccion de Banks, convertido ahora en el principal sospechoso hasta que la investigacion parece apuntar a la detencion de un maniaco sexual. ¿Por que buscaba a Banks? La identidad de la mujer asesinada, la nueva novia de Roy, y su vinculacion con una clinica abortista revelara a Banks las implicaciones de su hermano con una red de trafico de menores de edad a traves de fronteras internacionales con el fin de explotarlas sexualmente.--- "Una novela tan vivida que quemara los dedos incluso a los detractores de los thrillers mas programaticos." - People "Si aun no te habias topado con el inspector Banks, preparate para un curso intensivo en tension, de una psicologia sutil." - Ian Rankin "Excepcional" The Washington Post "El Camaleon es una autentica novela negra moderna y cautivadora." - Bookseller "El inspector Banks sabe que a menudo las respuestas a los interrogantes que intenta resolver pueden encontrarse en lo mas profundo de la propia alma." - Michael Connelly "Entre las sombras ofrece todo el suspense que se pueda esperar, ademas de unas cuantas sorpresas." - The Toronto Star "Petrificante, evocativa, una obra de arte de profundos matices." - Dennis Lehane "El talento de Robinson... le permiten otorgar a Banks una mente agil y una presencia fuerte en el relato al tiempo que, gracias a la variedad de sus registros, cada personaje secundario cobra una individualidad tenaz." - New York Times Books Review

Literatura en inglés: Novela policiaca.

efore you discovered DCI Banks, Dectective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson. As a detective in the LAPD Threat Management Unit, Arvo Hughes has dealt with every kind of stalker there is - and in 1990s Hollywood, he's not short of work. But when it comes to TV star Sarah Broughton, who has been receiving unsettling anonymous letters, even Arvo cannot find a pattern in this stalker's behaviour. The letters seemed harmless enough, until the actress discovers a mutilated body in the sand right outside her Malibu home. Certain that Sarah's stalker must have met her before, Arvo realises his only chance to catch the killer before he gets closer to Sarah is to delve into her past - but nothing is straightforward in this case, and the squeaky-clean star seems to be keeping all memories of a shady history locked away ...

Un adolescent disparaît dans d''étranges circonstances et Alan Banks, son meilleur ami, se reproche longtemps de ne pas avoir su prévenir sa mort. Trente ans plus tard, devenu inspecteur principal da

Dans le petit matin glacé de janvier, deux péniches en feu sur un canal du yorkshire. Au milieu des décombres, deux cadavres calcinés. pour l''inspecteur banks, le meurtre ne fait aucun doute. mais qui etait vise ? tina, la jeune droguee de seize ans, ou tom, le mysterieux artiste solitaire ? lorsque l''incendiaire frappe a nouveau, les talents d''enqueteur de banks sont mis a rude epreuve...

La petite ville d''Eastvale, dans le Yorkshire, s''apprête à fêter Noël dans une ambiance et un décor de carte postale. D''autant que la neige est au rendez-vous. Hélas, cette atmosphère idyllique es

BANKS IS BACK - AND THE HUNT IS ON. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, and a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground. Things quickly become much more sinister. Assigned to the case, DCI Banks and his team are baffled by the mystery laid out before them. But when a motor accident throws up a gruesome discovery, the investigation spins into a higher gear - in another direction. As Banks and his team 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 ...

The new series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic historical works, together with rigorously selected personal narratives never before in print destined to become classics in their own right. Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies was awarded the Victoria Cross when serving with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps during the Second Boer War. He went on to serve as Divisional Corps liasion officer in 1914-15, his correspondence offers a rare insight into the changing face of the British Army at this time. In 1916 he took over the 113th Brigade, in a New Army Division 38th (Welsh). The first major test was on the Somme at Mametz Wood, where the divisional commander was sacked. He describes this famous fight and eventual capture of the wood in dramatic detail. Once again in the thick of the fighting at Pilckem Ridge in 1917 on the first day of Third Ypres, his letters show the importance of this battles success. In 1918 he travelled to Italy, where his diaries reveal for the first time how the Allied Command functioned in this theatre. His constant correspondence with his brother-in-law Henry Wilson, the C.I.G.S., is a unique insight into British Army High Command and this legendary Field Marshal. This rare collection of letters offers a broad and detailed insight into the First World War that will fascinate any enthusiast.

Ex-college lecturer Gavin Miller is found dead; his distorted body strewn across a disused railway track near his home. There's no sign of a struggle, and no concrete evidence except for one distinguishing package: GBP5,000 of cash, tucked inside the man's pocket. But when DCI Banks delves into Miller's past, he uncovers a troubled existence tarnished by accusations of abuse and misconduct which throws up an array of puzzling questions. What really occurred at the college where the victim used to teach? How was he embroiled in political activism at Essex University, over forty years ago? And what links him to an upstanding pillar of the community, who also harbours a dark secret from her past? One thing is clear: someone will stop at nothing - even murder - to prevent Banks from discovering the truth ...

1969, dans le Yorkshire. Lors d'un festival de rock, une jeune fille est poignardée. L'enquête tourne alors autour d'un groupe débutant : Les Chapeliers fous. Trente-six ans plus tard, un journaliste est sauvagement assassiné. Sans mobile apparent. Mais toujours ces Chapeliers fous, au sujet desquels il préparait un article. Au fil de son enquête, l'inspecteur Banks va découvrir que ce n'est pas la première fois que ces superstars vieillissantes du rock sont mêlées a une tragédie... Surfant a un rythme infernal entre passé et présent, l'intrigue nous replonge au coeur de la génération Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Grand Prix de littérature policière pour Saison sèche, Peter Robinson s'est imposé comme l'un des maîtres du genre.

Deux femmes assassinées le même jour. Deux meurtres sordides et sans lien apparent. Deux enquêtes parallèles qui piétinent. Quel rapport entre une paraplégique égorgée au scalpel et une étudiante vio

In einer warmen Sommernacht ist eine junge attraktive Frau in einem blauen Peugeot unterwegs nach Norden. Zur gleichen Zeit hinterlässt ein verzweifelter Mann einen Notruf auf der Mailbox seines Bruders. Bei Sonnenaufgang ist die junge Frau tot und der Mann verschwunden. Und alle Spuren führen zu Inspector Alan Banks.

Chief Inspector Banks returns in number one bestselling Peter Robinson''s new crime novel.

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annies investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe. ReviewsPraise for PIECE OF MY HEART : ''Brilliantly evokes the time of British psychedelia ... as well as being a terrific contemporary crime novel.'' Independent on Sunday ''Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers'' league . . . PIECE OF MY HEART brilliantly interweaves past and present, providing two strands of tension for the price of one, and further enhancing Alan Banks''s reputation as one of crime fiction''s most appealing cops.'' Marcel Berlins, The Times ''Two riveting, equally interesting crime novels in one'' Telegraph

When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories.br / The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love . . .

A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective's most intense and gripping case yet--from an author hailed by Louise Penny as "a writer at the top of his game." With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating a young woman's death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly per-petrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and it's Banks's job to discover the shocking truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence--while the investigation leads him down the darkest of paths. . . . Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Music's Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.

Matricule 1139.Eastvale, Yorkshire. Lors d’une manifestation antinucléaire, la police charge violemment la foule, faisant plusieurs blessés. Mais, à l’issue des échauffourées, on découvre le corps de