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Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has been transferred from London to the pastoral town of East Vale in the Yorkshire dales. The town’s cobbled market square and tree‑shaded river seem to offer Banks a welcome escape from urban stress. But a series of unsettling crimes threaten that calm. A peeping‑tom disturbing local women brings the police under scrutiny, while two teenagers’ crimes rise from theft to violence. Banks must connect the dots between these incidents, confronting the darker side of village life in a gritty, suspense‑filled mystery.
First publish date: August 27, 1987
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Peter Robinson
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