Showing results for "Robinson" in Crime Fiction

Detective Chief Inspector Beth Fellows is thrown into the biggest case of her career: the brutal murder of Rose Danes. She quickly realizes Rose’s murder is linked to a cold case she investigated two years previously. The victim, 14-year-old Celine Wilson, survived but now languishes in a coma. Both girls were branded with the image of a raven. The only lead is a vague description and a first name, Simon.

I know all about being afraid of the dark. Like my uncle, in my thirties I found my way into my own dark forest, face-to-face with the big bad wolf. He was so close to me the whole time, I could taste the blood on his breath. Meeting him felt like a fairytale. I fact, I met him at a bar called the Wolf's Lair. A sensational trial for an historic serial murder. A missing woman with a trail of secrets. A top lawyer famous for defending notorious criminals. A retired homicide cop hunting for the truth.

El inspector jefe Alan Banks se enfrenta al peor momento de su carrera: su hermano, Roy, ha desaparecido después de dejarle en el contestador un angustiado mensaje de socorro. Aunque se han distanciado y apenas se hablaban, el inspector jefe Banks, oficialmente de vacaciones, vuelve a Londres para investigar el paradero de Roy. La policía de Yorkshire está a punto de emitir una orden de busca y captura sobre el propio Banks: una joven ha sido encontrada asesinada en su coche con un disparo en la sien y una única pista.

Als ein friedlicher Protest gegen Atomkraft plötzlich eskaliert, liegt am Ende die Leiche eines Polizisten auf den Pflastersteinen von Eastvale – eiskalt erstochen. Hat Dennis Osmond – Veranstalter der Demo und ausgerechnet liiert mit Polizeipsychologin Jenny Fuller – etwas mit den Ausschreitungen zu tun? Ist die Kommune sozialer Aussteiger, die sich auf einem einsamen Hof in den Dales niedergelassen haben, nicht so pazifistisch, wie sie vorgibt zu sein?

Cuando los agentes de policía Janet Taylor y Dennis Morrisey son enviados a la casa para atender un caso de violencia doméstica, tropiezan con una espantosa escena: la muerte de uno y la lucha por sobrevivir y carrera del otro. El inspector Alan Banks se encuentra al frente de la operación de búsqueda de El Camaleón, un asesino en serie que ha secuestrado a cinco mujeres en la zona de Yorkshire. Pero la captura del asesino en serie es sólo el principio de una impresionante investigación que llevará a explorar los límites de todos y cada uno de los implicados en el caso.

Twin sisters Ellie and Tia were torn apart the day their parents died. Ellie was given the picture-perfect life—marriage, a home, security. Tia was cast aside, growing up in the shadows, unwanted, unloved, and never quite belonging. Now, after years apart, fate brings them together again. Ellie is desperate to believe this is a chance to rebuild their bond. To finally have the sister she always longed for. But Tia hasn’t come back to play happy families. She knows the secret Ellie is hiding— a secret that could shatter her perfect marriage and destroy everything she’s built.

Fiona Carlton has never needed a man to make her life complete. Until she meets charming, handsome, and sophisticated Rick. She is consumed, first by lust, then by a love for him that overwhelms her. The only problem? Rick already has a wife. But a little detail like that isn't going to stand in Fiona's way… Rick's wife, Lydia, however, is not a woman to be trifled with. She's sacrificed everything for her husband, been the perfect stay-at-home wife and mother, raised two beautiful children, built a happy home full of memories.

“The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market.” —Stephen King Peter Robinson is one of the very best in the crime fiction business—a teller of dark police tales who stands firmly in the bestseller ranks alongside Ian Rankin and Elizabeth...

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls “the best now on the market.” In November 1980, Nick Hartley returns home from a university lecture to find his house crawling with police. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and...

His fans include Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Tess Gerritsen, Ian Rankin, and Louise Penney. He has won acclaim and numerous international prizes and awards, including the Edgar. Now, Peter Robinson, one of the world’s greatest suspense writers, returns with a powerful mystery in which his...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and...

Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as Abattoir Blues Louise Penny calls In the Dark Places "brilliant." Tess Gerritsen says it's "thrilling." And Michael Connelly describes Peter Robinson as "amazing." One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with this sensational new novel...

“Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail.”—Michael Connelly One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with the 27th novel featuring the legendary detective Alan Banks in the mystery series Stephen King...

Peter Robinson, the acclaimed author of the bestselling series Stephen King calls “the best now on the market,” returns with a gripping, emotionally charged mystery in which the revered detective Alan Banks must find the truth about a murder with possible racial overtones—and save a friend...

Die schwelenden Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit holten ihn ein … Archäologe Harold Steadman ist allseits beliebt, unauffällig und vollkommen seiner Forschung verschrieben – umso rätselhafter ist es, als seine Leiche gefunden wird, halb vergraben in den Hochmooren des Swainsdale.

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories—most never before published in the US, and one of them an Edgar winner—which also features three Inspector Banks tales. Peter Robinson pens thrilling...

Michael Connelly calls Peter Robinson ""an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail."" See why in Sleeping in the Ground, the gripping new novel starring Alan Banks — featuring an opening scene you'll never forget, and a finale you...

When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is hired to prove the identity of a black sheep in his client’s family tree, he unwillingly finds himself drawn into a murder investigation with nothing more to go on than a 150-year-old letter and a connection to a legendary ruby that has been missing for generations. As more letters are mysteriously left for him, Tayte becomes immersed in a centuries-old tale of greed, murder and forbidden love that takes his research from the wilds of the Scottish Highlands to the colour and heat of colonial India. A dark secret is buried in Jaipur. But why is it having such deadly repercussions in the present?

UN OMICIDIO. UN PROCESSO. UNA TESTIMONANZA CHIAVE. MA LA PERSONA PIÙ PERICOLOSA IN AULA NON È L'ASSASSINO. L'ESORDIO THRILLER CHE HA SCALATO LE CLASSIFICHE. Revelle è una mamma single, con un lavoro più che impegnativo: è un'interprete in tribunale. Grazie alle dieci lingue che ha imparato durante un'infanzia vagabonda, spesso è la sola in aula a capire che cosa sta dicendo un testimone, e sa bene che una frase intesa male può decidere il destino di un processo. Una sola parola e un'intera vita può cambiare per sempre. Per questo, Revelle è sempre stata impeccabile.