Standing in the Shadows: The last novel in the number one bestselling Alan Banks crime series

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Robinson had completed another Banks novel before he died. Standing in the Shadows is due to be published next year. Robinson approaches his characters with immense compassion.”— New York Times Book Review on Many Rivers to Cross He claimed it got harder as time went on to maintain the high standard he had established for himself in the series, but it was not noticeable in his output. Banks went on through divorce, further success in his career and no let-up in the complexity and sometimes brutality of the cases he investigated.

I've thoroughly enjoyed Peter Robinson's police procedural novels featuring DCI (now DS) Alan Banks & it's with great sadness that after the author's death this will be his final story. As the novel progresses, both sides of the story are gradually drawn together and, the current events in the earlier story include the murder of John Lennon and the arrest of the Yorkshire Ripper a couple of months later.This is the 28th and, unfortunately, the last in the DCI Alan Banks series. I was so sorry to read that Peter Robinson passed away suddenly and will miss the series a lot. Complicated, unexpected and startling, the story is all that, but Robinson brings all the disparate parts together so cleverly that the result on finishing the novel is a satisfaction that all readers want at the end of a good book * On-Magazine *

Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series was made into a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson ( Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe ( The Bill, Murphy's Law) as DI Annie Cabbot.As always in the Banks novels, readers will enjoy the details of pop culture and social history. This is an intelligent and satisfying procedural.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Standing in the Shadows