Inspector Banks · Book 28
Standing in the Shadows
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781529343175
- Type
- novel
About this book
Standing in the Shadows (2023) is the twenty-eighth and final Inspector Banks novel, 352 pages long, following Not Dark Yet. Peter Robinson completed it before his death in October 2022, closing out a series that had followed Alan Banks continuously from Eastvale newcomer to Detective Superintendent since Gallows View in 1987.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Standing in the Shadows is book 28 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Not Dark Yet. 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 9781529343168
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529343175