Inspector Banks · Book 20
Watching the Dark
- Published
- 16 August 2012
- Pages
- 535
- ISBN-13
- 9780062222916
- Type
- novel
About this book
Watching the Dark (August 2012), the twentieth Inspector Banks novel at 535 pages, follows Bad Boy and precedes Children of the Revolution. By this point the series' parallel arc — Banks's failing marriage, subsequent relationships, and climb from DCI to Detective Superintendent — has been running continuously for two decades.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Watching the Dark is book 20 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Bad Boy. It is followed by Children of the Revolution. 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 9780062222916