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Strange Affair
- A Novel of Suspense
- Narrated by: Ron Keith
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case, from New York Times best-selling author Peter Robinson.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased - a policeman who has since gone missing.
The dead woman in the car had been running from something - but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior - and former lover - Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope...and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.
One of his most clever, twisting thrillers, Strange Affair attests once again why listeners love and can't get enough of Peter Robinson's novels of suspense.
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- Kiwi
- 12-17-16
Another good Banks's story BUT.... I
I didn't not care for this narrator. He made DCI Banks sound like a poof posh & at
times, even a little desperate. The female narration sounded breathless & false. Perhaps I'm too use to Mr. Prebble' s grizzled and animated portrayal...
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- MaggieMay45
- 09-10-16
Good storyline , dreadful narrator !!
Oh my what a narrator experience ......all the voices where grating but the female ones were horrendous , it was like listening to a bad over acted drama !!
I stuck with it as I like the author works but after listening to lots of audiobooks this was a greatest challenge to finish.
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- Kathryn E. Keeling
- 02-08-17
I liked the narrator fine! Great Story.
This was a really good story. Engrossing also like all books in this series there are social, historical, bits of politics revealed. Things of the time and relationships. I am intrigued how, more and more one gets to learn about Banks and the evolution of his life. Changes within the policing as technology changes, the rising of other detectives and staleness of others careers. The toll on a policeman who has risen to detective banks rank over many years and cases. The hero is so human and real.
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- SAB
- 10-03-21
Horrid narrator
Keith made even the nicest characters sound nasty, unsavory, snide. I didn’t like spending time with them.
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Two suspicious deaths challenge DS Alan Banks and his crack investigative team. A young local student’s body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. The death looks like suicide, but there are too many open questions for Banks and his team to rule out foul play. The victim didn’t own a car. A man in his 60s is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post mortem findings indicate that he died from injuries sustained during a fall. Was it an accident - did he slip and fall? Or was he pushed?
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Like visiting with old friends
- By Sue MB on 02-28-19
By: Peter Robinson
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Gallows View
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Mark Honan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed.
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Wrong interpretation
- By Patrick on 08-24-09
By: Peter Robinson
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Cold Is the Grave
- An Inspector Banks Novel
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Ron Keith
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Inspector Banks novel In a Dry Season was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won an Anthony Award. Cold Is the Grave won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award. It takes the aging, solitary inspector from his cozy Yorkshire cottage into the dark underworld of London. The assignment is a favor asked by Banks' boss and greatest enemy: Chief Constable Riddle.
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Very Solid
- By Colleen on 10-10-04
By: Peter Robinson
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Past Reason Hated
- A Novel of Suspense
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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A picturesque Yorkshire village is dressed in its finest for the upcoming Noel. But one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday. Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal---and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's life...and death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas.
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Simply dreadful.
- By Christine on 11-17-12
By: Peter Robinson
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Final Account
- An Inspector Banks Novel #7
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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There's more than blood and bone beneath the skin... The victim, a nondescript "numbers cruncher," died horribly just yards away from his terrified wife and daughter, murdered by men who clearly enjoyed their work.
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Inspector Banks goes international
- By Snoodely on 06-16-13
By: Peter Robinson
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Innocent Graves
- An Inspector Banks Novel #8
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The worst that can possibly happen... has. A beautiful child is dead - defiled and murdered in a lonely graveyard on a fog-shrouded evening. It is the sort of horrific crime Chief Inspector Alan Banks fled the city to escape. But the slaying of a bright and lovely teenager from a wealthy, respected family is not the end of a nightmare. Lies, dark secrets, unholy accusations, and hints of sexual depravity swirl around this abomination like leaves in an autumn wind, leading to a shattering travesty of justice that will brutally divide a devastated community with suspicion and hatred.
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Falsely Accused!
- By Snoodely on 06-20-13
By: Peter Robinson
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A Necessary End
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ended with 50 arrests---and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID superintendent Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds.
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Good, but not the best in the series.
- By Sandy on 08-20-12
By: Peter Robinson
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Not Dark Yet
- A DCI Banks Novel (Inspector Banks Novels, Book 27)
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they’ll find answers - and the culprit - among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape
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Love Peter Robinson.
- By Retired on 04-29-21
By: Peter Robinson
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Many Rivers to Cross
- A DCI Banks Novel, Book 26
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead. Was this just another tragic overdose or something darker?
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Awful
- By Eddie's mom on 01-17-20
By: Peter Robinson
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When the Music's Over
- An Inspector Banks Novel
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
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Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a 50-year-old assault allegedly perpetrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and it's Banks' job to discover the shocking truth. As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton's manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence - as the investigation leads him down the darkest of paths....
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Contemporary Social Problems and Poetry
- By mspoet on 08-24-16
By: Peter Robinson
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Children of the Revolution
- An Inspector Banks Novel
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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The body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line. In the four years since his dismissal for sexual misconduct, he’d been living like a hermit. So where did he get the 5,000 pounds found in his pocket? Leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to suspect that the victim's past may be connected to his death. Forty years ago the dead man attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter politics. And as the seasoned detective well knows, some grudges are never forgotten - or forgiven.
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Finally, another Banks novel + Simon Prebble
- By Robert on 04-25-14
By: Peter Robinson
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Sleeping in the Ground
- An Inspector Banks Novel
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a wedding party. A huge manhunt ensues. The culprit is captured. The story is over. Except it isn't. For Alan Banks, still struggling with a tragic loss of his own, there's something wrong about this case - something unresolved. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the relentless detective deeper into the crime...deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banks thought he knew about the events outside that chapel.
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all females sound like geriatric elves
- By Cat L. on 09-08-17
By: Peter Robinson