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Sleeping in the Ground

The 24th DCI Banks novel from The Master of the Police Procedural

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Sleeping in the Ground

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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 The thrilling twenty-fourth instalment in Peter Robinson's Number One bestselling Banks Series.

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.

But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for.

When the surprising truth becomes clear, it is almost too late.

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Critic Reviews

The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong.
Top-notch police procedure
A mighty force to be reckoned with in crime fiction
Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league.
Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation
Long may Peter Robinson keep writing these books! I envy anyone who has not yet discovered this series
Robinson's interrogations, many of them conducted in pubs, have the rare quality of steadily illuminating and thickening both the speakers and their subjects. The result is a slow-burning intensity that deepens from beginning to end
Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader.
A canon that is on the way to rivalling Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot . . . Superbly textured, this dark story reveals that Banks is growing even more suspicious and melancholy as he grows older - which makes him even more captivating.
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The story was most enjoyable but the reader's breathing between lines was disturbing. He sounded like he had asthma which was a shame as his voice was most pleasant. Sandra. New Zealand

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loved the book, characters etc but I felt the killer was all to easy to figure out. maybe Peter Robinson's style is starting to repeat a bit? I still look forward to the next chapter in Bank's life story.

brilliant story but predictable ending

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Don't bother unless you're 80 years old and listen to classical music. All characters are old with too references to poetry, radio 3, old music and story not particularly exciting. Banks novels definitely past it and out of date now.

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