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The Sunday Times Number One bestseller

The thrilling twenty-fourth installment in Peter Robinson´s thrilling Banks Series.

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A terrible crime. No obvious motive.
Banks is on the case.

´Top-notch police procedure´ - Jeffery Deaver

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.

But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for.

When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late.

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The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I´m wrong. Stephen King

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Robinson, Peter

Peter Robinson´s DCI Banks is a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy´s Law) as DI Annie Cabbot.

Peter´s standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA´s 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter´s sixth Arthur Ellis award. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. Peter keeps a website at www.inspectorbanks.com.

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