Inspector Banks · Book 11
Cold Is the Grave
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 451
- ISBN-13
- 9780143052234
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cold Is the Grave (2000) is the eleventh entry at 451 pages, arriving after In a Dry Season and ahead of Aftermath. Peter Robinson keeps developing Banks's flawed, temperamental character here, part of what distinguishes the series from more plot-mechanical police procedurals.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Cold Is the Grave is book 11 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows In a Dry Season. It is followed by Aftermath. 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 9780143052234