Inspector Banks · Book 8
Innocent Graves
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 376
- ISBN-13
- 9780380820436
- Type
- novel

About this book
Innocent Graves (1996), the eighth Inspector Banks novel at 376 pages, sits between Dry Bones That Dream and Dead Right. It continues Peter Robinson's slow-burn approach to Yorkshire crime fiction, favouring the fault lines of small-town England over twist-driven plotting.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Innocent Graves is book 8 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Dry Bones That Dream. It is followed by Dead Right. 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 9780330482189
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380820436