Read more
'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' - Stephen KingThe 20th Anniversary edition of Sunday Times bestseller, Aftermath, is the twelfth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Cold is the Grave.A house of horror. A despicable serial killer. Banks's darkest case.When a concerned neighbour calls the police to number 35 The Hill after a domestic disturbance, the two constables are led to a truly horrific scene. They unwittingly uncover an elusive serial killer known as the Chameleon. With the killer finally in custody it appears the nightmare is over.
Not for Banks though. Too many questions remain unanswered at the house of horrors. And then they discover there are more bodies than victims. Is the Chameleon killer just one monster of many? Banks must solve his darkest case yet.
Aftermath is followed by the thirteenth book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, The Summer That Never Was.
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.
Summary
20th Anniversary reissue of Aftermath, Peter Robinson's spectacular twelfth novel in the Inspector Banks series, which became the major British ITV drama DCI Banks.
Foreword
20th Anniversary reissue of Aftermath, Peter Robinson's spectacular twelfth novel in the Inspector Banks series, which became the major British ITV drama DCI Banks.
Additional text
Banks' slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series' warmth makes you feel all's right with the world
