Inspector Banks · Book 13
The Summer That Never Was
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 487
- ISBN-13
- 9780771076015
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Summer That Never Was (2003) is the thirteenth entry, running 487 pages between Aftermath and Playing with Fire. By now Alan Banks has risen well beyond his original DCI rank, part of the continuous career arc Peter Robinson tracked across the whole series.
Its place in Inspector Banks
The Summer That Never Was is book 13 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Aftermath. It is followed by Playing with Fire. 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 9780754019336
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780771076015