The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series
Language: English
Published by Pan, 2025
Series: Book 13 of 28 - Inspector Banks
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- Title
- The Summer That Never Was: Sweltering, Compulsive Crime Mystery in the Number One Bestselling Series
- Author
- Robinson, Peter
- Publisher
- Pan
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1035058448
- ISBN 13
- 9781035058440
- Item weight
- 350 grams
- Series
- Book 13 of 28: Inspector Banks
‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ – Stephen King
When a body is found, Banks must confront his past.
A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines.
Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965. The police found no trace of him. His disappearance left his family shattered and his best friend, Alan Banks, full of guilt.
That friend has now become Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, and he is determined to bring justice for Graham. But he soon realizes that in this case the boundaries between victim and perpetrator, between law-guardian and law-breaker, are becoming increasingly blurred . . .
In The Summer That Never Was, Alan Banks must return home and face the greatest fear of his childhood. If you enjoyed it, then you’ll love the next instalment in the Banks series – which became the major British ITV drama DCI Banks – Playing With Fire.
*****
Critical acclaim for the Inspector Banks series:
’A powerfully moving work’ – Ian Rankin
’Top-notch police procedure’ – Jeffery Deaver
’A wonderful novel’ – Michael Connelly
’An addictive crime-novel series’ – The New York Times
’A guaranteed page-turner’ – Daily Mirror
’Demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can’t . . . A considerable achievement’ – The Guardian
’One of the most authentic and atmospheric of crime series’ – Independent
’The master of police procedural’ – The Mail on Sunday
’Near, perhaps even at, the top of the British crime writers’ league’ – The Times
’Banks is genuinely human, rather than a hard man’ – The Observer
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About the Author
Peter Robinson's DCI Banks became a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson as Inspector Banks and Andrea Lowe 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. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada. Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and divided his time between Richmond, UK, and Canada until his death in 2022.
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