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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 jefe Banks, 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. Banks se dara cuenta de que no conocia bien a su propio hermano. Quizas se parecia a el mas de lo que habria imaginado. Otra gran novela del inolvidable Alan Banks. Uno de los grandes maestros del genero . Philip Oakes, Literary Review

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 . . .

Yorkshire, Inglaterra, verano de 1969. Al finalizar un concierto de rock, un grupo de jóvenes encuentra el cadáver de una muchacha en el interior de un saco de dormir. Todo apunta a que ha sido bruta

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Englischen Kriminalromanen wird oft unterstellt, sie seien "cozy", sie würden ein Übermaß an -- unrealistischer -- Behaglichkeit ausstrahlen. Auf Peter Robinsons Romane um Inspector Alan Banks trifft dies auf keinen Fall zu. Banks ist ein Mann, der von Selbstzweifeln und Entscheidungsschwächen geplagt wird, Eigenschaften, die gerade einem Polizisten das Leben nicht unbedingt erleichtern. Und hinter der Fassade der auf den ersten Blick idyllischen Landschaft Yorkshires lauert nicht nur das alltägliche Verbrechen, sondern auch manch entsetzliches Geheimnis, das Banks' Weltsicht nur bestätigt. In Wenn die Dunkelheit fällt soll Alan Banks in einem Fall ermitteln, der anfangs bereits aufgeklärt zu sein scheint: Bei einer Routineangelegenheit waren zwei seiner Kollegen auf ein Haus gestoßen, in dessen Keller sie die Leichen mehrerer entsetzlich misshandelter junger Frauen fanden. Aber ist der Lehrer Terry Payne, der mit seiner Frau Lucy dort wohnt, wirklich der Täter? Und wie ist Lucy, ein offensichtliches Opfer häuslicher Gewalt, selbst in den Fall verwickelt? Neben der Haupthandlung sind es vor allem die privaten Verwicklungen von Inspector Banks, die diesen Roman ausmachen. Seine von ihm getrennt lebende Frau Sandra erwartet ein Kind und möchte sich endlich scheiden lassen. Sein Verhältnis mit der attraktiven Annie Cabbot scheint ebenfalls unter einem dunklen Stern zu stehen, Cabbot ermittelt gegen eine seiner Kolleginnen, der unangemessene Gewaltanwendung vorgeworfen wird. Dieses stete Ineinandergreifen von Berufs- und Privatleben ist es, was Robinsons Bücher so eminent lesbar macht. Krimis mit einer spannenden Story gibt es viele. Protagonisten, mit denen Leser stets aufs Neue mitfiebern, sind dagegen eher die Ausnahme. --Felix Darwin

When he receives a mysterious and disturbing telephone call from his brother Roy, Banks heads off to London to search him out. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene. A young woman has been found dead in her car...with Banks's name and address written on a slip of paper in the back pocket of her jeans...

La escena del crimen que aguarda al comisario interino Alan Banks será una de las peores que haya visto jamás. Afortunadamente, el asesino y maltratador Terence Payne ha sido puesto bajo custodia. Las pesadillas que se agitan en el oscuro y humedo sotano de su vivienda han terminado. O al menos eso parece.Pero la curiosidad de Alan Banks exige muchas respuestas. ¿Como pudieron compañeros, vecinos y hasta la propia esposa no ver al terrible criminal que se ocultaba tras el afable profesor de instituto? En las postrimerias del horror, el comisario debera seguir con su investigacion, porque las tinieblas aun no se ha disipado, porque los cadaveres siguen apareciendo.

Eastvale, paisible petite ville du Yorkshire, au cadre idyllique. C''est là que vient d''être muté l''inspecteur Banks, qui a quitté sans regret Londres et son cortège de violences. Mais, sous ce déc

En verano de 1965, el adolescente Alan Banks se enfrentó a la desaparición y el posible asesinato de su mejor amigo, Graham Marshall, quien se esfumó un domingo mientras hacía el recorrido habitual del reparto de periodicos. Treinta y cinco años mas tarde, el inspector jefe Banks se encuentra en Grecia intentando recomponer su vida cuando, en su ciudad natal, son hallados los restos oseos de un joven al que pronto identifican como Graham Marshall. Banks, sumergido en un pasado demasiado lejano que aun le atormenta porque, en su momento, no pudo o no supo evitar la muerte de su amigo, se involucra en una investigacion que lo pondra cara a cara con un mundo conocido y mucho mas cercano.

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