All the Colours of Darkness

Its place in Inspector Banks

All the Colours of Darkness is book 18 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Friend of the Devil. It is followed by Bad Boy. See the full Inspector Banks reading order.

Alan Banks left a burnt-out career in the Metropolitan Police for what he expected to be a quieter posting in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale — and instead spent nearly three decades investigating murders that dig into the fault lines of small-town and rural England: old grudges, class resentment, and secrets that surface decades later. Peter Robinson wrote Banks as a genuine music and whisky enthusiast whose personal tastes colour the prose, and let his home life evolve in real time across the…