Cold Is the Grave

My new favorite Banks. After a few very minor, but still annoying, illogical and odd things early on in the book (A minor one-> (view spoiler)[ Banks agrees to, as a private person, rather than police, go to London to find and talk to his Chief constable's estranged daughter who's gone there immediately following (hide spoiler)]......more

A complex multilayered plot which is far more personal than the previous instalments in the series..The crime seems straightforward but as per Robinson’s usual style there is so much more occurring. So glad to be working my way through the Banks series!......more

DCI Alan Banks has never got on well with Chief Constable Riddle, but when Riddle asks him to find his missing daughter Banks agrees to help. There are plenty of unsavoury characters in Cold Is The Grave, but Robinson still slips in some nice moments of humour. The plot is as tight & well constructed......more

Inspector Banks, book No. 11: Banks finds himself involved in the life of his arch nemesis Chief Inspector Jimmy Riddle as his family is shocked to find their 16 year old daughter on the internet. There is also the murder of a local petty criminal miles away from Yorkshire. A chain of events conspir......more

This one was a little slow sometimes but I was still hooked to find out about all the answers. Cold is the grave by Peter Robinson get a 8/10 stars.......more