Inspector Banks · Book 17

Friend of the Devil

Published
1 January 2007
Pages
398
ISBN-13
9780060544379
Type
novel
Cover of Friend of the Devil

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.

Key facts about Friend of the Devil

Friend of the Devil is a novel by Peter Robinson. Readers have had it since 2007. It runs to 398 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of Friend of the Devil. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780060544379 to find the main one.

Friend of the Devil is book 17 of 28 in the Inspector Banks series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Gallows View (1987). Watching the Dark is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 August 2012.

That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Standing in the Shadows is the latest published Peter Robinson book on file, from 2023.

About Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson was a British-Canadian crime novelist best known for the Inspector Alan Banks series, a long-running police procedural set in and around the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. See every Peter Robinson book in order.

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…

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