Dedicated Man
A dead body. Hidden secrets. Banks will find the truth.
The brutally murdered body of a supposedly well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a dry stone wall. But who would kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man?
Young Sally Lumb, locked in her lover's arms on the night of the murder, tries to find the killer herself. But her good-intentions only leads to more danger. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks is called to investigate and soon discovers that disturbing secrets lie behind the seemingly untroubled façade . . .
From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes A Dedicated Man, book two in Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series. The next instalment in the series is A Necessary End.
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Critical acclaim for the Inspector Banks series, which became the major British ITV crime drama DCI Banks:
'A powerfully moving work . . . watch out for those twists - they'll get you every time' – Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series
'Top-notch police procedure' – Jeffery Deaver, author of the Lincoln Rhyme series
'A wonderful novel' – Michael Connelly, author of the Ballard & Bosch series
'An addictive crime-novel series' – New York Times
'A guaranteed page-turner' – Mirror
'Demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't . . . A considerable achievement' – Guardian
'One of the most authentic and atmospheric of crime series' – Independent
'The master of police procedural' – Mail on Sunday
'Near, perhaps, even at the top of, the British crime writers' league' – The Times
'Banks is genuinely human, rather than a hard man' – Observer
Aftermath was a Sunday Times bestseller when it first published in 2001.
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.