Лучшие произведения Питера Робинсона

В городе и его окрестностях исчезли пять девочек-подростков. Для поимки серийного убийцы была создана специальная группа, одно из подразделений которой возглавил старший инспектор Алан Бэнкс. Взяли маньяка случайно, и при задержании он был убит. Казалось бы, зло наказано, полиция освободила улицы от кошмара, но Бэнкса продолжают мучить сомнения: как могла жена Теренса Пэйна за год брака даже не заподозрить, чем занимается ее муж в подвале их дома?

В сентябре 1969 года в Северном Йоркшире, на Бримлейском фестивале, заколота ударом ножа в сердце девушка-хиппи, Линда Лофтхаус; а в октябре 2005-го убит кочергой музыкальный критик, обозреватель Николас Барбер. Следствие приходит к выводу: оба преступления - дело рук одного злодея, и двумя жертвами он не ограничился.

В Уитби, на краю утеса, находят сидящую в инвалидной коляске женщину с перерезанным горлом. Преступление расследует инспектор Энни Кэббот. В то же время в Иствейле, в так называемом Лабиринте, насилуют и убивают девушку. Дело об убийстве ведет старший инспектор Алан Бэнкс. На первый взгляд происшествия в двух разных городах Северного Йоркшира никак не связаны между собой, однако помощнику Бэнкса, пытавшемуся выследить в Лабиринте маньяка, перерезают горло таким же манером, как женщине в Уитби, - лезвием бритвы или скальпелем. Алан Бэнкс и Энни Кэббот, которые давно неравнодушны друг к другу, объединяют усилия, чтобы быстрее разоблачить…

В лесу обнаружен повешенный. Имеются серьезные основания сомневаться, что это самоубийство. Когда в деле появляется еще один труп, к следствию подключается старший инспектор Алан Бэнкс. В ходе расследования ему придется погрузиться в грязный мир интриг и преступлений, где ложь в порядке вещей, а убийство — обычный способ решения проблем. В серьезной опасности оказываются его близкие и друзья…

Стоило старшему инспектору Бэнксу уехать в отпуск, как в его отделении полиции начинаются проблемы. В спальне у подруги его дочери обнаруживается незарегистрированный пистолет, при попытке изъять оружие погибает невиновный человек. Тем временем замещающая Бэнкса (и не совсем безразличная ему) инспектор Энни Кэббот неожиданно застает у него дома дочь Бэнкса Трейси вместе с неизвестным молодым человеком, а тот открывает огонь и ранит инспектора Кэббот. Похоже, Трейси связалась с плохим парнем. Теперь отцу и его подчиненным предстоит, рискуя жизнью, вызволять ее из лап обезумевшего преступника.

Иногда даже в самом тихом омуте случаются экстраординарные события, вот и для маленькой йоркширской деревушки таким событием стала загадочная история о двух дамах из Розового коттеджа. Эту историю услышал и пятнадцатилетний, на то время, мальчик, который мечтал стать писателем, со временем она начала стираться из его памяти, но через многие годы он все-таки получил все ответы.

"A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with the local feminists and his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts, both Jenny and Banks’s wife, Sandra, are drawn deeper into the events. The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense…

Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to death. At first there are over a hundred suspects, but then things narrow down to the people who live on "Maggie's Farm", an isolated house high on the daleside. Among the suspects is Dennis Osmond, a social worker involved with Jenny Fuller, Inspector Banks's friend. As if this isn't enough to cope with, Banks finds his freedom hampered by the appointment of an old enemy, Detective Superintendent Richard 'Dirty Dick' Burgess, to head the investigation. Finally, warned off the case, the only way Banks can salvage his career is by beating Burgess…

The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past, a shady land-developer, Harry’s editor and a local thriller writer are all suspects–and all are figures from Harry’s previous, idyllic summers in the dale. A young girl, Sally Lumb, knows more than she lets on, and her knowledge could lead to danger. Inspector Banks’s second case unearths disturbing secrets behind a bucolic facade.

Many who visit the valley are overwhelmed by its majesty. Some wish they never had to leave. One didn't, a hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hovers over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents who guard shattering secrets of sordid pasts and private shames. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that both the grim truth and a cold-blooded killer are hiding here, far from the city, the noise, and safety. And he's determined to walk into the valley of death to expose them both.

When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past.

When last seen alive, sixteen-year-old Deborah Harrison was on her way home from school. Her friend Megan thinks she saw the shadowy figure of a man behind Deborah as they waved goodbye on the bridge, but the fog was so thick that evening she can’t be sure. Not long after, Deborah’s body is found in the local cemetery. The murder terrorises the wealthy enclave of St Mary’s, Eastvale, and because Deborah was the daughter of a prominent industrialist, high-flying new Chief Constable Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle puts pressure on Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his team to catch the killer without delay. And soon, partly thanks to the work…

In New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson’s heart-racing tale of suspense the case of a missing child is inextricably linked to that of the murder of a young man, sending Chief Inspector Alan Banks down a harrowing road to uncover the truth behind the crimes. It was a crime of staggering inhumanity: a seven-year-old girl taken from her working class Yorkshire home by an attractive young couple posing as social workers. Chief Inspector Alan Banks feels certain little Gemma Scupham is dead, yet the motive for her kidnapping remains a mystery. No ransom is ever demanded, nor could Gemma's tortured,…

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 very nearly erased—a policeman who has since gone missing. The dead woman in the car had been running from something—but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior—and former lover—Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a…

DCI Alan Banks reluctantly investigates DI Bill Quinn with Inspector Joanna Passero. Quinn, convalescing at St Peter’s Police Treatment Centre, was killed by a crossbow on the tranquil grounds, and left compromising photos. Quinn may be disreputable, linked to a vicious crime in Yorkshire and to a cold case – English Rachel Hewitt 19 vanished in Estonia six years ago.

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.

For many, being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan has become a curse from cradle to grave. False hope, hollow promises, and a mind-numbing lack of success – these words describe the Toronto Maple Leafs and the hockey club’s inexplicable mediocrity over much of the past decade. Author Peter Robinson has attended some 100 games over the past six seasons and has little to show for it except an unquenched thirst that keeps him coming back. Why does a team that hasn’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, long before many of its followers were even born, have such a hold on its fans? Robinson tries to answer that question and more while detailing what it’s like…

When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall - until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, one that also involves Banks. Then…