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Zusatztext "Brilliantly plotted! beautifully paced! it gathers speed and dread until I could barely stand it. Peter Robinson writes with compassion! with depth! with the assurance of a writer at the top of his game." Informationen zum Autor One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson was the bestselling, award-winning author of the DCI Banks series. He also wrote two short-story collections and three stand-alone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world. Among his many honors and prizes were the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Martin Beck Award. Klappentext It’s a double mystery: two young men have vanished, and the investigation leads to two troubling clues in two different locations. As Inspector Banks and his team scramble for answers, the inquiry takes an even darker turn when a truck careens off an icy road in a freak hailstorm. In the wreckage, rescuers find the driver, who was killed on impact, as well as another corpse . . . that of someone who was dead well before the crash. Snow falls. The body count rises. And Banks, perceptive and curious as ever, feels himself being drawn deeper into a web of crime . . . and at its center something—or someone—dark and dangerous lying in wait. Zusammenfassung Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as Abattoir Blues Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is back in this crackling novel of suspense! a moody and sophisticated mystery full of serpentine curves from New York Times bestselling! Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson. One of the world’s greatest suspense writers returns with this sensational new novel featuring Inspector Alan Banks! hailed by Michael Connelly as “a man for all seasons.” It’s a double mystery: Two young men have vanished! and the investigation leads to two troubling clues in two different locations—a scorched van and a peculiar bloodstain in an abandoned airport hangar. As Banks and his team scramble for answers! the inquiry takes an even darker turn when a truck careens off an icy road in a freak hailstorm. In the wreckage! rescuers find the driver! who was killed on impact! as well as another body—a body that was dead well before the crash. Snow falls. The body count rises. And Banks! perceptive and curious as ever! feels himself being drawn deeper into a web of crime! and at its center something—or someone—dark and dangerous lying in wait. Vibrating with tension! ingeniously plotted! and filled with soul and poignancy! In the Dark Places is a remarkable achievement from this masterful talent. ...
