In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Just send us an email and well put the best up on the site. Order of peter robinson books peter robinson is an englishcanadian author of crime fiction. Author peter robinson on dci banks books entertainment. Chief inspector banks investigates an executionstyle murder but he starts to suspect the victim was leading a double life. The main characters are alan banks and his assistant detective annie cabbot. Dec 31, 2016 peter robinson dci banks books in order december 31, 2016 many rivers to cross by peter robinson revolution by peter robinson final account inspector alan banks dci banks innocent graves. When dci alan banks is called to investigate the grisly scene, he discovers its the home of a serial rapist and murderer.
Inspector banks series by peter robinson goodreads. From june 2014, the first series was repeated on itv encore. Under different pennames, she wrote over 40 novels, 20 novellas y some nonfiction books in a wide range of genres and. What do you think about the choices made for the dci banks tv series. Guardian the body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. I have come to think of the banks books and the tv series as parallel universes, rather like those in the tv series fringe. In addition to this, banks has to wrestle with his attraction to youngpsychologist, jennyfuller. The tenacious and stubborn dci banks unravels disturbing murder. The crime series was later adapted to television under the title dci banks, wherein stephen tompkinson played the role of the protagonist, alan banks. A dedicated mana former university professor, wealthy historian, and archaeologist who loved his adopted villageis dead in the wild outdoors. Dci banks is a british crime drama series produced by left bank pictures for the itv network. The inspector banks books were adapted into a television show in 2010. As devotees of peter robinsons books will know, eastvale is modelled on ripon and richmond. Commissioned by itv, the first two episodes of the show, adapted from the novel aftermath, were such a success that even more novels were adapted into a show that was eventually titled dci banks.
Many rivers to cross by peter robinson revolution by peter robinson final account inspector alan banks dci banks innocent graves. Banks the vampire huntress legend series reading order. The series of the adaptations was titled as dci banks. Stephen tompkinson was the star of the show, playing the role of detective. From 2010 to 2016 several of the novels were adapted for television, and other original stories were produced, under the series title dci banks with stephen tompkinson in the lead role. Five series plus a pilot episode of the series have been broadcast between 27 september 2010 and 5 october 2016. Peters dci banks is now a major itv1 drama by left bank productions. The series is based on peter robinsons inspector alan banks novels and stars stephen tompkinson as detective chief inspector alan banks. List of dci banks episodes wikipedia republished wiki 2. The novel carried a blurb that gave the background of the character, alan banks.
The first series aired in autumn 2011 with an adaptation of friend of the devil, the second in autumn 2012, and the third in february 2014. The price of love, 2009 collection of short stories, which also included a dci. While peter robinson is best known for his dci banks series, the author has also written additional standalone novels. Inspector alan banks book series 22 books all formats kindle edition. Overview dci banks is a britishbased television series featuring a detective chief inspector dci modeled after a character in peter robinsons mystery novels. As devotees of peter robinsons books will know, eastvale is modelled on ripon and richmond handsome historic towns with. Detective chief inspector alan banks is a policeman in yorkshire england and the protagonist in a series of novels by englishcanadian. The first novel by peter robinson is also the first novel where detective inspector alan banks are introduced. She mysteriously shapeshifts between the genres of romance, womens fiction, crimesuspense thrillers, and paranormal lore. After getting into the first book, wow i had to read them all. The alan banks mysterysuspense novels are the best series on the market. Banks is now fully settled in yorkshire and in this book he is chasing the killer of a local historian who seems to have been universally popular.
They tackle dangerous and increasingly twisted cases as the series progresses. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the dci banks novels and the tv adaptations. Mail on sunday robinson is prolific, but with each book he manages to ring the changes. I have read all the banks books in sequence and enjoyed them thoroughly until about book 19. Banks book list fictiondb your guide to fiction books. The summer that never was 2003 us title, close to home aftermath 2001.
Peter robinson always produces a solid, interesting mystery. Fresh from the london metropolitan police force, dci banks investigates a series of incidences in the small town of eastvale including. The peter robinson books have at center dci inspector alan banks, an over30yearveteran policeman who moved to the fictional town of eastvale near yorkshire, after getting tired of the big city life, having been an inspector at the metropolitan police in london before. Jun 28, 2018 peters dci banks is now a major itv1 drama by left bank productions. From new york times bestselling author peter robinson comes this mesmerizing storywithinastorythat will thrill his fans and bring him many new readers a distraught woman arrives at the eastvale police station desperate to speak to detective chief inspector alan banks. A police officer is killed while responding to a domestic disturbance call. Peter robinson dci banks books in order december 31, 2016. Peter robinsons chief inspector alan banks novels in. The price of love, 2009 collection of short stories, which also included a dci banks novella and.
A thoughtful man with a love of classical music, banks does not have the literary knowledge of shakespeare or contemporary myster writers of his author. Jul 17, 2016 dci banks, played on tv by stephen tompkinson, appears in creator peter robinsons grittiest novel yet, with echoes of the jimmy savile case and grooming gangs, as the author tells our writer. Stephen tompkinson plays the role of detective chief inspector alan banks. The following is a list of episodes of the itv crime drama series dci banks, starring stephen tompkinson series 15, andrea lowe series 12, 35 and caroline catz series 25. Careless love inspector banks 25 by peter robinson. Frequently asked questions author of the inspector banks novels. Last week, dci banks fans were left in limbo following the savage attack on ds annie cabbot, and andrea lowe and stephen tompkinson.
It is possible to read each of the novels without having read any of the others but some do contain major spoilers, so if you are intending to read more than one it is best to read them in chronological order. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Many rivers to cross 2019 careless love 2018 sleeping in the ground 2017 when the musics over 2016 no cure for love 2015 abattoir blues 2014 us title, in the dark places children of the revolution 20 watching the dark 2012 before the poison nonseries book. In 12 he is acting superintendent whilst gristhorpe is on sickleave. Dci banks, played on tv by stephen tompkinson, appears in creator peter robinsons grittiest novel yet, with echoes of the jimmy savile case and grooming gangs, as the author tells our writer. Robinsons main character is inspector alan banks, who works as a the dci in a fictional town outside of yorkshire. Dci banks is a british crime drama on the itv network. Dry bones that dream is peter robinsons seventh novel in the inspector banks series which became the major british itv drama dci banks. Here is the list of all the peter robinson books in order for the inspector banks mystery series listed by publication date and chronological order. There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Peter robinson dci inspector alan banks books in chronological order british mystery series enjoyed the early books, but they became increasingly more gory, and had too many serial killers. The following is a list of episodes of the itv crime drama series dci banks, starring stephen tompkinson series 15, andrea lowe series 15 and caroline catz series 25. Stephen tompkinson wild at heart, ballykissangel plays inspector banks, and andrea lowe the bill, murphys law plays di annie cabbot.
Gallows view 1987 a dedicated man 1988 a necessary end 1989 the hanging valley 1989 past reason hated 1991. Peter robinson dci banks books in order image collections book. See more ideas about dci banks, peter robinson and detective series. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, harry steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleaguesby everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar. After working in the unsolved crime squad for the metropolitan police in london, banks got sick and tired of the materialism of the big city, packed his bags and left. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Dci banks began airing on television from september 16 onwards in the year 2011. Frequently asked questions author of the inspector banks. Detective chief inspector alan banks is a policeman in yorkshire england. The tenacious and stubborn dci banks unravels disturbing murder mysteries aided by his young assistants, ds annie cabbot and di helen morton. Robinson now spends his days teaching and living in toronto, richmond, and north yorkshire. Dci alan banks, returning from his own holiday, is nominally in charge of the inquiry, but the mystery this time has so many strands and so many players, some of them quite memorable, that it requires the entire eastvale team, with a particularly strong performance from ds winsome jackman, to chase down every complication.
A peeping tom is frightening the women of shelve gallows view. His main character, alan banks, is a complex, compassionate police inspector with problems of his own. A dedicated man is the second peter robinson book to include alan banks his yorkshire based detective. This is the order of inspector banks books in both chronological order and publication order. Titled as gallows view, the novel was published in the year 1987. Dci banks lives in the fictional town of eastvale in north yorkshire. The stories then seemed to concentrate too much on annie and not much on banks. The twentyfifth instalment of the number one bestselling dci banks series the master of the police procedural. Banks finds suspects galore, while annie seems to hit a brick wall until she. Last week, dci banks fans were left in limbo following the savage attack on ds annie cabbot, and andrea lowe and stephen tompkinson dci alan banks appeared on the show to talk. How many dci banks novels are there example publication. Caedmons song, 1990 the first cut was the us adaptation of the book in 1993.
Peter robinson is the bestselling, awardwinning author of the dci. The detective chief inspector is based at eastvale regional heaquarters in the yorkshire dales. With monica dolan, sian breckin, michael keogh, charlotte riley. Peter robinson, the acclaimed author of the bestselling series stephen king calls the best now on the market, returns with a gripping, emotionally charged mystery in which the revered detective alan banks must find the truth about a murder with possible racial overtonesand save a friend from ruin. A banks has one of the best vampire and other world series i have ever read jude commented. But banks is abroad, and the womans revelation of a loaded gun hidden in her daughter erins bedroom.
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