Inspector Banks · Book 21

Children of the Revolution

by Peter Robinson

Published
1 January 2013
Pages
392
ISBN-13
9780062298591
Type
novel

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Cover of Children of the Revolution

About this book

Children of the Revolution (2013), 392 pages, is the twenty-first entry, following Watching the Dark and preceding Abattoir Blues. Peter Robinson's Yorkshire procedural remains squarely character-driven at this stage, favouring Banks's flaws and the Dales' buried history over plot twists.

Its place in Inspector Banks

Children of the Revolution is book 21 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Watching the Dark. It is followed by Abattoir Blues. 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…

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