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"In recent years, the career of Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has been stalled - and, in fact, very nearly destroyed - by the petty animosities of his politically ambitious senior officer Chief Constable Jeremiah "Jimmy" Riddle. But when nude pictures of Riddle's runaway teenage daughter show up on a pornographic website, he turns to Banks for help." "The trail first leads Banks to London's Soho and then to Little Venice, where Emily Riddle is living with a dangerous gangster with ties to the world of rock music. At first refusing to go home, Emily later turns up at Banks's hotel, bruised and frightened and asking for his help. Soon she is back with her family in Yorkshire, and Banks's work appears to be done." "A gruesome murder occurs in a popular Eastvale club, filling the national tabloids with headlines that scream of scandal, sex, and high-level corruption. It is a cold and savage homicide that shakes Alan Banks to his very core and leads to shocking revelations that suggest the Courage affair is somehow linked to something much closer to home. And now the grim discoveries of his unfolding investigation are leading Banks in a direction he does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Riddle."--BOOK JACKET.
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Mystery, Alan Banks (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Banks, alan (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, suspense, England, fiction, Fiction, crime, Fiction, thrillers, suspensePlaces
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Cold is the grave: an Inspector Banks mystery
2001, Penguin Books
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0140295143 9780140295146
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Cold is the grave: an Inspector Banks mystery
2001, Pan Books, Pan Macmillan
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0330482165 9780330482165
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The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banks -- a father himself -- dares not ignore as he follows it's squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon after -- gruesome ,sensational, and, more than once -- pulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle.
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