Sleeping in the Ground
An Inspector Banks Novel
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4.2 • 143 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
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 won't see coming.
At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over.
Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, still struggling with a tragic loss of his own, there's something wrong about this case — something unresolved. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the relentless detective deeper into the crime... deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks thought he knew about the events outside that chapel.
And when at last the shocking truth becomes clear, it's almost too late.
Packed with twists and turns, heart and soul, this is another triumph from an author "at the top of his game" (LOUISE PENNY).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The mass shooting of a wedding party outside a Yorkshire church propels bestseller Robinson's intriguing but slow-burning 24th novel featuring Det. Supt. Alan Banks (after 2016's When the Music's Over). In the aftermath, three people are dead, including the bride, and two more later succumb to their wounds. Banks bristles a bit when his boss brings in a profiler, especially when he discovers that it's forensic psychologist Jenny Fuller, for whom he used to hold a torch. Together, Fuller, Banks, and Banks's lead detective, Det. Sgt. Annie Cabbot, try to paint a picture of the gunman, but even when they come up with a credible suspect, the discovery only leads to a maze of further possibilities, including motives that have their start decades earlier in connection to another crime. The reader may feel that Banks is too much on the periphery, dealing with the loss of a long-ago lover, as the complex story unfolds around him, but he's still a mighty force to be reckoned with in crime fiction.
Customer Reviews
Another great DCI Banks book
I love the series, and this is another perfect book. I appreciate the carrying on of the series. Keep it going.