Wednesday's Child

DCI Banks was “a real copper, a man who had come from the street”. WEDNESDAY’S CHILD, the sixth instalment in Peter Robinson’s now wildly successful Inspector Banks series, follows a tried and true suspense thriller formula. The novel opens with two distantly separated mystery plot lines that ultimat......more

One of the best entries in the Inspector Banks series, so far, sees the detective involved in the search for a kidnapped child. Amidst the fiction there are references to real life Moors murderers Ian Brady & Myra Hindley, which adds authenticity to the story. Robinson's plotting & characterisation a......more

Wednesday's Child: Inspector Banks' Discomfort Mondays child is fair of face, Tuesdays child is full of grace, Wednesdays child is full of woe, Thursdays child has far to go, Fridays child is loving and giving, Saturdays child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny......more

A young woman has had her 7-year-old daughter taken into custody by a pair of social workers, only to realize later that they have actually abducted the little girl. Some mother we are dealing with here. Seems that this glowing example of motherhood had never really warmed up to the child to begin w......more

Wednesday’s child is full of woe…. From a children’s nursery rhyme In this sixth novel in Peter Robinson’s DCI Alan Banks series, the titular Wednesday’s child is Gemma Scupham, a pitiful 7-year-old, long abandoned by her father and woefully neglected by her blowsy, self-centered mother, Brenda Scuph......more