'The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong' Stephen King

The Summer That Never Was is the thirteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Aftermath.

A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines.

Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965. The police found no trace of him. His disappearance left his family shattered, and his best friend, Alan Banks, full of guilt.

That friend has now become Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, and he is determined to bring justice for Graham. But he soon realizes that in this case, the boundary between victim and perpetrator, between law-guardian and law-breaker, is becoming more and more blurred.

Alan Banks must return home and face the greatest fear of his childhood. The Summer That Never Was is Peter Robinson's thirteenth novel in the Inspector Banks series, which inspired the major British ITV drama DCI Banks.

About the Author

Peter Robinson is author of twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, including the Number One bestseller Before The Poison. Peter's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

Peter's DCI Banks was a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays 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.

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and lived between Richmond and Canada. He died in October 2022.

Reviews
The master of the police procedural * Mail on Sunday *
Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail. -- Michael Connelly
Move over Ian Rankin - there's a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author. . . Chief Inspector Alan Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction's new top cop * Independent on Sunday *
Peter Robinson is a master. -- Tess Gerritsen
Thrilling-brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced. -- Louise Penny
It demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't . . . A considerable achievement * Guardian *
Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league * The Times *
Exemplary * New York Times Book Review *
Banks' slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series warmth makes you feel all's right with the world. - * S Magazine *



Book Information
ISBN 9781509859979
Author Peter Robinson
Format Paperback
Page Count 528
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 366g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 34mm