Standing in the shadows / Peter Robinson.

By: Robinson, Peter, 1950- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Robinson, Peter, Inspector Banks ; bk. 28.Publisher: Leicester [England] : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2023Edition: Large print editionDescription: 396 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444851328Subject(s): Banks, Alan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- England -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books. Summary: Late 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 nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realises two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has own suspicions as to what might have happened... Late November, 2019. A dig near Scotch Corner unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more recent than the Roman remains the archaeologist is looking for. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.
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Late 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 nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realises two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has own suspicions as to what might have happened... Late November, 2019. A dig near Scotch Corner unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more recent than the Roman remains the archaeologist is looking for. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.

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