Book description
Banks is back his twentieth mystery - and this time he's investigating
the murder of one of his own.
Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil
grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are
found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on
all sides.
By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on
shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption.
By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty
without evidence.
By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset
by her own doubts and demons.
And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who
seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case . . . 'Robinson
also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a
deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of
unsettling the reader' Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now
divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are twenty books in
the bestselling Inspector Banks series - the critically acclaimed crime
novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada
and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. Peter
Robinson's DCI Banks is now a major new ITV1 drama by Left Bank
productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays
Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie
Cabbot. FRIEND OF THE DEVIL has been adapted for ITV and will be aired
in August or September 2011. FRIEND OF THE DEVIL was shortlisted for the
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for 2008. Peter
keeps a website at www. inspectorbanks. com.
