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Innocent graves : an Inspector Banks mystery / Peter Robinson.

by Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022-

Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.

Police -- England -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.

Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022- Inspector Banks mysteries ; 8.

9780771073304 (2017 McLelland & Stewart trade pbk.)

9781509810741 (2016 Pan Books trade pbk.)

9780143052203 (2006 Penguin Canada pbk.)

014025689X (Penguin pbk.)

0425157792 (Berkley pbk.)

1 v. (various pagings).

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 of new boy Detective Inspector Barry Stott, it looks as if they have done..... But Banks is not convinced. While the community breathes a collective sigh of relief and turns into a lynch-mob, Banks examines the loose ends: a vicar, accused of sexually harassing a refugee worker, who lies about his whereabouts at the time of the murder; his straying wife; a schoolteacher with a dark secret; the accused's vindictive ex-girlfriend; a teenage thug who has threatened Deborah and her family with violence. And then there are Deborah's own family secrets. With each new piece of information, a different pattern is formed, until Banks is forced to incur the wrath of Jimmy Riddle if he hopes to solve the case.

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel, 1997.

Mystery fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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