Inspector Banks · Book 19
Bad Boy
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 430
- ISBN-13
- 9780340836972
- Type
- novel

About this book
Bad Boy (2010) is the nineteenth entry, running 430 pages after All the Colours of Darkness. It arrived the same year ITV's DCI Banks adaptation began airing, bringing Peter Robinson's Yorkshire detective to television for a run that lasted through 2016.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Bad Boy is book 19 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows All the Colours of Darkness. It is followed by Watching the Dark. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340836972