Inspector Banks · Book 17
Friend of the Devil
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 398
- ISBN-13
- 9780060544379
- Type
- novel
About this book
Friend of the Devil (2007) is the seventeenth entry, 398 pages long, sitting between Piece of My Heart and All the Colours of Darkness. It continues the series' close attention to old grudges and buried secrets resurfacing in small-town Yorkshire.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Friend of the Devil is book 17 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Piece of My Heart. It is followed by All the Colours of Darkness. 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 9780340836897
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060544379