Inspector Banks · Book 24
Sleeping in the Ground
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9781444786941
- Type
- novel

About this book
Sleeping in the Ground (2017) is the twenty-fourth Inspector Banks novel, 336 pages long, following When the Music's Over and preceding Careless Love. Peter Robinson keeps developing Banks's personal history here, three decades into a series where nothing resets between books.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Sleeping in the Ground is book 24 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows When the Music's Over. It is followed by Careless Love. 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 9781444786903
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781444786941