Peter Robinson Books in Order

Two timelines intertwine as Banks investigates a present-day murder linked to the unsolved 1980s killing of a young woman connected to student protests. Old surveillance files, buried betrayals, and political secrets force him to rethink what justice can look like decades later.

A property developer with underworld ties is found executed in a luxury house where violent pornography was filmed. While Banks and his team follow leads into Albanian organized crime, Zelda’s secret vendetta against traffickers threatens to drag him into a morally dangerous alliance.

The body of a teenage Syrian refugee is discovered stuffed in a wheelie bin on a shabby Eastvale estate. As Banks probes possible hate crime, drugs, and gang connections, trafficking survivor Zelda pursues her own dangerous hunt for the men who once controlled her.

In the same bleak Yorkshire week, a young woman in an evening dress is found dead in a crashed car, and an older man lies lifeless on a remote lane. Both deaths look like suicides, but Banks and his team suspect a predator who preys on the lonely.

At a summer wedding in the Yorkshire Dales, a sniper opens fire, killing and wounding guests. When the suspected gunman is found dead by apparent suicide, Banks is not convinced, and his search for answers uncovers an older crime that finally explains the massacre.

Newly promoted, Banks leads a historical abuse inquiry into aging celebrity Danny Caxton, accused of raping a fourteen-year-old girl in 1967. At the same time, Annie Cabbot investigates the present-day murder of a teenager, exposing grooming gangs and institutions that long protected powerful men.

Banks and his team investigate the stabbing of Kim Fosse, a woman whose husband quickly becomes the prime suspect. DC Susan Gay, eager to prove herself, learns how loyalty, love, and ambition can all cloud the search for the truth.

A man waiting outside a school to meet a teacher friend becomes the focus of suspicion when a schoolgirl is murdered. Cleared in court but ruined in life, he discovers that vindication does not always bring safety or an escape from violence.

A mid-list crime writer strikes up a correspondence with a bored, fantasizing reader who asks for advice on how to kill his wife. When fiction and reality begin to overlap, the author realises he may have helped script a real crime.

On a sultry summer day, Banks interviews a visiting American who insists he has died fourteen times and was murdered in his last death. The strange claim leads to a case where memory, trauma, and possible crime refuse to line up neatly.

A stolen tractor and bloodstain in an abandoned airfield hangar seem like minor rural crimes until a delivery van crashes off an icy road, revealing a corpse that died long before impact. Banks and his team uncover killings tied to illegal meat operations and a violent criminal ring.

Disgraced college lecturer Gavin Miller is found dead beneath a disused railway line, a wad of cash still in his pocket. Banks traces Miller’s fall back to radical student politics in the 1970s and to a wealthy benefactor who would prefer old scandals stayed buried.

DI Bill Quinn is murdered with a crossbow at a police treatment center, and compromising photos of a young woman are found in his room. Paired with Professional Standards inspector Joanna Passero, Banks follows a trail from Yorkshire to Tallinn to uncover what really destroyed Quinn.

Composer Chris Lowndes returns from California to a lonely house in the Yorkshire Dales, once home to Grace Fox, hanged in the 1950s for poisoning her husband. Haunted by her story, he investigates the old case and uncovers secrets the village has tried to forget.

A worried mother finds a handgun hidden in her daughter’s room and asks for Banks, who is on holiday abroad. When police try to seize the weapon, tragedy follows, and Banks’s daughter Tracy runs off with the gun’s charming owner, forcing a frantic and very personal pursuit.

In Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood, a couple whose marriage is crumbling both start plotting an escape. When each of them ends up dead, the truth behind their seemingly ordinary dog-walking routine reveals how resentment and greed can turn lethal.

This collection of eleven crime stories ranges from Yorkshire to Toronto and wartime Europe, including an Inspector Banks novella. Robinson explores love, guilt, war, and the burden of the badge, showing how ordinary choices can spiral into violence and uneasy kinds of justice.

This e-book gathering of stories circles around the costs of violence and loyalty. In the title tale, a boy finds a police badge on a Blackpool beach and learns how carrying someone else’s history can be both burden and salvation.

A bar musician borrows a haunting melody from a stranger and finds the tune lodged in his head, bringing both success and unease. As his career shifts, he starts to wonder what price he has paid for someone else’s song.

In a foggy American river city, a grieving father ferries passengers back and forth after his daughter’s mysterious death. As a stranger becomes obsessed with the story, the line between haunting, guilt, and human malice grows dangerously thin.

In affluent Eastvale, a group of women gather for friendly poker games and quiet gossip until one of their husbands is found dead. Banks must decide whether the circle’s secrets, rivalries, and money troubles add up to a carefully planned murder.

A down-on-his-luck Toronto private investigator takes a case from a woman convinced her brother has been wrongly accused of murder. What begins as routine work turns into a twisty investigation involving political corruption, blackmail, and a city full of half-truths.

In this prequel novella, a younger Alan Banks works the murder of a Soho call girl in mid-1980s London. As he probes clubs, vice, and corrupt politics, he begins to see why leaving the city for Eastvale might be his only escape.

Inspector Banks returns to his childhood home for his parents’ golden wedding anniversary, only to find old rivalries, nosy neighbours, and two criminal schemes festering on his doorstep. A nostalgic visit turns into a case that tests his loyalties to family and duty.

During the Second World War, an African American GI stationed in Yorkshire is accused of assaulting a local woman. Through the eyes of villagers and police, the story explores racism, wartime tensions, and how easily justice can go wrong.

On Christmas Eve, Banks visits a troubled woman whose husband has vanished and whose loneliness is tipping into despair. With no obvious crime to solve, he listens, offers small kindnesses, and learns how a quiet conversation can change the course of a life.

At a grown-up birthday party, a young girl watches the adults drink, flirt, and quarrel, then makes a shocking request that echoes a famous Bible story. Years later, her memories reveal how family loyalties and casual cruelty shaped that long-ago night.

Set designer Mark Hardcastle is found hanged in the woods, and his partner, Laurence Silbert, lies beaten to death in their luxury home. What looks like a murder-suicide draws Banks into the murky world of intelligence work, terrorism fears, and a cover-up that reaches far beyond Eastvale.

While Annie Cabbot investigates the death of a wheelchair-bound woman pushed from a cliff in a bleak seaside town, Banks handles the rape and murder of a teenager in Eastvale. Old cases, including a notorious killer, connect the two crimes in unsettling and unexpected ways.

Two murders, nearly four decades apart, collide. In 1969, a young woman is stabbed at a chaotic Yorkshire rock festival; in the present, a music journalist researching that concert is bludgeoned to death. Banks must untangle the long-hidden link before more lives are destroyed.

Shaken by the shooting of a colleague, Banks is drawn south when his estranged brother Roy leaves a terrified voicemail and then vanishes. At the same time, London police find a murdered young woman carrying Roy’s address, pulling Banks into a web of sex, money, and exploitation.

Two narrowboats burn on a frozen Yorkshire canal, leaving two charred bodies and clear signs of arson. Banks and Annie Cabbot follow trails from a teenage runaway and a reclusive artist into a world of art forgery, addiction, and people willing to kill for money and escape.

Decades after Banks’s fourteen-year-old friend Graham vanished on his paper round, a skeleton near their old hometown is identified as the missing boy. As Banks confronts his own guilt, Annie Cabbot searches for another missing teenager, and the two cases begin to echo one another.

Responding to a domestic disturbance in Leeds, officers stumble into a cellar filled with bodies. Banks thinks he has reached the end of a serial killer’s spree, but as he unpicks the survivors’ stories he finds complicity, long-term abuse, and victims far beyond the dead.

When Chief Constable Riddle’s runaway teenage daughter appears in explicit photos online, he reluctantly begs Banks for help. Tracking her through London’s clubs and music scene, Banks stumbles into organized crime and violence that will follow the girl and her family back to Yorkshire.

A drought exposes the drowned village of Hobb’s End beneath a Yorkshire reservoir, where a boy uncovers a woman’s skeleton. Sent to handle this “dead-end” case, Banks teams with DS Annie Cabbot to unravel a wartime murder that still shapes lives fifty years later.

A short story by Harlan Coben, originally published in the anthology *Malice Domestic 7*. It showcases his signature ability to craft a tight mystery with a clever twist in a compact format.

A wide-ranging collection of crime stories, from Inspector Banks investigations to noir tales set in Toronto, Florida, and wartime Yorkshire. Robinson explores obsession, bad luck, and small moral choices that turn everyday people into victims, suspects, or something far more dangerous.

A teenage member of a white-power group is kicked to death in an Eastvale alley after a night out. Banks follows leads from racist gangs to the victim’s business partners and local youths he once taunted, uncovering hatreds that run through the whole community.

In a foggy churchyard, the teenage daughter of a wealthy businessman is found strangled. Public fury settles on a disliked schoolteacher, but as Banks looks deeper into the girl’s world of privilege and lies, he begins to doubt that the obvious suspect is guilty.

In Los Angeles, British-born TV star Sarah Broughton begins receiving chilling letters from a stalker who claims to know the “real” her. When the messages escalate into murder, homicide detective Arvo Hughes must protect Sarah and uncover secrets buried in her past life in England.

When unremarkable accountant Keith Rothwell is executed with a shotgun outside his remote farmhouse, Banks discovers the victim was not the dull family man he seemed. Tracking money trails and shadowy associates, he uncovers a hidden life built on greed and dangerous partnerships.

Originally published in the UK as *Caedmon's Song*, this standalone follows a young woman who survived a sadistic attack and now hunts her assailant, while a crime writer in Yorkshire stumbles into the same nightmare from another direction.

A well-dressed couple posing as social workers persuade Brenda Scupham to let them take her seven-year-old daughter Gemma for “tests” and never return. Banks’s search for the missing child soon overlaps with a brutal murder at an abandoned mine, pointing to a predator who targets the vulnerable.

Just before Christmas, Caroline Hartley is found naked and stabbed in her cozy living room, the crime scene lit by a tree and log fire. As Banks and DC Susan Gay investigate, they uncover tangled relationships, hidden desires, and motives rooted in old wounds.

In seaside Whitby, a traumatized student slowly rebuilds her life after a brutal assault, determined to confront the man who left her for dead. In a parallel thread, a successful crime writer in Yorkshire is drawn to a mysterious woman until the two stories collide.

In a secluded Yorkshire valley near the village of Swainshead, a hiker discovers a man’s body hanging from a tree. Banks follows the trail through feuding local families, past scandals, and an old double murder that still poisons the present.

During an anti-nuclear protest in Eastvale, a bullying uniformed officer is stabbed to death. Banks must sift through radical activists, local misfits, and fellow cops while clashing with ruthless London superintendent “Dirty Dick” Burgess, who wants a quick, convenient result.

Near the village of Helmthorpe, the body of local historian Harry Steadman is found buried beneath a dry-stone wall. Banks probes jealousies and long-held resentments in the dale, while teenager Sally Lumb knows more than is safe to admit.

Newly arrived from London to the Yorkshire town of Eastvale, DCI Alan Banks faces a peeping Tom, teenage burglars, and the suspicious death of an elderly woman, while tension at home rises as his work and personal loyalties collide.