Inspector Banks · Book 21
Children of the Revolution
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN-13
- 9780062298591
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062298591