Inspector Banks · Book 15
Strange Affair
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780771076138
- Type
- novel

About this book
Strange Affair (2005) is the fifteenth entry at 368 pages, arriving after Playing with Fire and before Piece of My Heart. As throughout the series, Banks's relationships and career continue developing in real time rather than resetting book to book.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Strange Affair is book 15 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Playing with Fire. It is followed by Piece of My Heart. 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 9780771076138