Not Safe After Dark: Twenty Gripping Crime Short Stories Featuring Inspector Banks / A Necessary End (Inspector Banks #3) by Peter Robinson

Description

Several stories in one book

Mystery / Crime

1. Not Safe After Dark

Peter Robinson pens thrilling tales rich with keen observations, pitch perfect dialogue, and shocking plot twists that have fascinated readers all over the world and made him one of the greatest suspense novelists alive. His acclaimed novels featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks rank among the most celebrated police procedural series in modern fiction. In Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories, Robinson showcases once again his extraordinary talents with a collection of twenty stories, including three featuring Inspector Banks.

2. A Necessary End

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.

Although officially warned off the case, the only way Banks can salvage his career is by beating Burgess to the killer…