Inspector Banks · Book 9
Dead Right
- Published
- 1 January 1997
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780330482172
- Type
- novel

About this book
Dead Right (1997) is the ninth Inspector Banks novel — published in the US as Blood at the Root, a retitling worth knowing if you're shopping North American editions. At 320 pages, it follows Innocent Graves and precedes In a Dry Season in Peter Robinson's strictly sequential series.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Dead Right is book 9 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Innocent Graves. It is followed by In a Dry Season. 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 9780330482172