Friend of the Devil: The 17th DCI Banks crime novel from The Master of the Police Procedural

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MASTER A MAZE OF MURDER.

When a 19-year-old girl is found dead in a tangle of alleyways known as The Maze, DCI Alan Banks is called in to investigate. With no shortage of suspects, Banks soon finds himself missing DI Annie Cabbot. Their personal problems aside, he could really use her sharp instincts on the case.

But Annie has troubles of her own. She's looking into another murder, and, on the face of it, the two deaths have nothing in common. But as Annie digs deeper, she finds something disturbingly familiar in the case.

Perhaps she and Banks will find themselves working together again a lot sooner than expected...

A thrilling Alan Banks mystery from the master of the police procedural, Peter Robinson.

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4.0
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A Google user
August 16, 2012
I enjoy a lot of crime fiction and found this to be very well written (no typos, ugly patches of writing etc) and a great story!
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Martin Brown
September 10, 2014
Another first rate yarn from Peter Robinson. Characters are well painted and ring true. The plot is typical Robinson, the sort of plot that drags you into the book so that you want to sit and read it all in one big, luxurious gulp! If, like me, you come from North Yorkshire you will revel in the setting, as well as the characters. I'll be buying the next Banks adventure as soon as I put the full stop at the end of this sentence.
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jane rose
October 25, 2017
Peter robinson weaves his stories so well with some of the plots overlapping very cleverly from book to book- tying up 'loose ends'
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About the author

Peter Robinson's DCI Banks became 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.

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.

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