***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Murder is only the beginning for Banks and his team . . .The gruesome double murder at an Eastvale property developer's luxury home should be an open and shut case for Superintendent Banks and his team of detectives. There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the death. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house ...

The 26th instalment of the Number One bestselling series'The master of the police procedural' Mail on Sunday'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' Stephen King***A skinny young boy is found dead - his body carelessly stuffed into a wheelie bin.Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to inve...

The twenty-fifth instalment of the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series'T****he master of the police procedural' Mail on Sunday'Robinson is prolific, but with each book he manages to ring the changes' Guardian*****The body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. Initially the evidence points to suicide, yet she didn't own a car and she didn't...

An enthralling anthology of 19 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan.Featuring bestselling authors such as Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid.NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTIONLegendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-go...

The new series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic historical works, together with rigorously selected personal narratives never before in print – destined to become classics in their own right. Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies was awarded the Victoria Cross when serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second Boer War. He went on to serve as Divisional Corps liasion officer in 1914-15, his corre...

The stories brought together in Foreigners, Drunks and Babies cast the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the Imperial Academy of an ancient Eastern empire; detail the musical education of a northern realist parish priest and his sons; travel through the West of Ireland with a couple facing various extinctions; spy on the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior; engage in hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom full of Soviet teachers; follow the adventures of an Italian girl visi...

Africa needs power - to grow its economies and enhance the welfare of its people. Power for all is still a long distance away - two thirds of the population remains without electricity and enterprises rank electricity as a top constraint to doing business. This sub-optimal situation coexists while vast energy resources remain untapped. One solution to harness these resources could be to tap into the concept of anchor load. Mining industry lends itself to the concept of anchor load as it ne...

Two missing boys. One fatal shot.When DCI Banks and his team are called to investigate the theft of a tractor from a North Yorkshire village, they're far from enthusiastic about what seems to be a simple case of rural crime. Then a blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, two main suspects vanish without a trace, and events take a darkly sinister turn.As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels like the case is coming to a dead end. Unt...

A terrible crime. No obvious motive. Banks is on the case.'Top-notch police procedure' Jeffery DeaverA shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Strugglin...

The final novel in the bestselling Alan Banks crime series - and a NUMBER ONE PAPERBACK BESTSELLER (January 2024) - by the master of the police procedural.'The best mystery-procedural series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' STEPHEN KINGLate November, 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a ne...

A murder from the past is brought to light in this gripping short story in the New York Times–bestselling Inspector Banks series.Acclaimed by Michael Connelly as "a man for all seasons," Inspector Alan Banks is among the best-loved characters in contemporary fiction. And now Banks confronts one of the most puzzling cases of his career—when a tourist claims that several decades earlier, in a previous life, he witnessed a murder committed nearby.Bank...

IT'S TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC.Fifty years ago, Linda Palmer alleges she was attacked by celebrity entertainer Danny Caxton. The crime has never been investigated - until now.With Alan Banks on the case, he leaves DI Annie Cabbot to investigate another crime: the body of a 15-year-old found in a remote countryside lane.But as each officer steps closer to uncovering the truth of their cases, they'll unearth secrets much darker than they ever could have ...