Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently relocated
with his family to the Yorkshire Dales from stressful London
but soon finds that life in the countryside is not quite as
idyllic as he had imagined.
Three cases come to the fore: a voyeur is terrorising the
women of Eastvale. Two thugs are breaking into homes, and
an old woman is dead, possibly murdered. As the tension
mounts, Banks must also deal with his attraction to a young
psychologist Jenny Fuller, and when both Jenny and Banks's
wife are drawn deeper into events Banks realises that his
cases are weaving closer and closer together...


Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in Canada. His Inspector Banks series has won numerous awards in Britain, Europe, the United States and Canada. There are fifteen novels published by Pan Macmillan in the series. Aftermath, the twelfth, was a Sunday Times bestseller.