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  • Watching the Dark

  • The 20th DCI Banks novel from The Master of the Police Procedural
  • By: Peter Robinson
  • Narrated by: Simon Slater
  • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Watching the Dark

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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Publisher's Summary

Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Reid 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.

©2012 Peter Robinson (P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton

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"Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.' Jeffery Deaver 'Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation." ( Observer)

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