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Innocent Graves (The Inspector Banks series) Paperback – July 11, 2019

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

Innocent Graves is the eighth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dry Bones That Dream.

A MURDERED GIRL. DARK SECRETS. DEADLIER LIES.

One foggy night, Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary’s, Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel.

But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry, defence and classified information. And Deborah, it seemed, enjoyed keeping secrets of her own . . .

With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gay, Inspector Alan Banks encounters many suspects, guilty of crimes large and small, in his search for the killer. And as he does so, plenty of sordid secrets and some lethal lies begin to emerge . . .

Innocent Graves is followed by the ninth book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Dead Right.

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    Inspector Banks
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  7. Dimensions
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  8. ISBN-10
    1509859128
  9. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan; New Edit/Cover edition (July 11, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509859128
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509859122
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 1.22 x 7.76 inches
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Peter Robinson

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Peter Robinson's DCI Banks became a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson as Inspector Banks and Andrea Lowe as 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. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada. Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and divided his time between Richmond, UK, and Canada until his death in 2022.

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Pairweevy
5.0 out of 5 stars always a well-written mystery
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2023
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Excellent characterizations, good plotting, fine writing. After each book, I am eager to read the next. The characters are so real that I feel I would recognize them on the street.
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Alison S. Coad
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Eighth Novel in Series
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2016
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The body of a young girl is found in a churchyard in Eastvale, Yorkshire, and Detective Inspector Alan Banks is assigned to investigate. With the aid of his subordinates, he locates a stranger who had been seen in the vicinity at the time of the murder, and while the evidence collected is circumstantial, the implications of it (blood and hair samples, DNA) are grave; but once the man is arrested and brought to trial, Banks begins to have his doubts…."Innocent Graves" is the eighth novel in Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks series, published in 1996, and the characters continue to develop as people, which I always find intriguing in a long-running series like this one. As ever, the police procedural part of the story is well fleshed out, and it’s quite reasonable to assume the guilt of an individual - until, that is, it suddenly isn’t. This is a series that doesn’t absolutely require the reader to have read the books in chronological order, although of course one gets more out of such novels if one has; actually, in this particular case we meet some new characters and many of the older ones are somewhat sidelined, so this could be a particularly good jumping-off point for the new reader. Recommended!
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wilber
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023
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I am still on the edge of my seat 😊😊
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Edwin Relf
3.0 out of 5 stars Getting better
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2023
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This one starts off with a riff on T S Elliot's poem 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock' - the yellow fog creaping along. Which character I wonder is the Prufrock allusion?

I find that a sustaining quality in Peter Robinson's DCI Banks stories is the poetry and the music. DCI Banks is an everyman; a good man, not with the trials of Job, but with some trials and temptations yet Banks always searches for the right, the moral thing to do.

In this novel, we spend a lot of time either within the introspection of Owen, the purported murderer, or with Banks and his officers trying to make proof that Owen is the killer and we the reader know he probably isn't. Owen is, in a sense, a Prufrock character; a flawed person, beset with problems in his difficulty with women and his querrelous inability to quite make a life with women work.

Though Peter Robinson makes wonderful allusions to great poetry and the music and the novels, so far, in the 8 DCI Banks novels I've read, he does not achieve 'literature' himself. Three stars is the most I have got to and the first one, Gallows View, while interesting, struggled to have one star.

I enjoy his detective fiction. He has built a good Everyman in his DCI Banks, and he has given Banks interesting characters as his ongoing policeperson colleagues and other characters who return for bit parts for novel to nover. One feels on is in good hands and that all will be right in the end. Now at number 8, the in plot fall of his novels, it is getting easier to pick out the murderer early in the novel ... though as to a guess being right, the reader is not sure until the last pages.

Now on to novel 9.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Early Banks
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014
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It was nice to read an earlier book when Banks was still married and the kids were younger. I wired the denouement early, but I love procedurals, so added back a star. Some of the downside, too much boring trial testimony, too much commentary on his music, though I recognize this is part of Bank's character. I enjoyed it and so will you!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Put then Down
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
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I absolutely love this series so far and I intend on reading the complete series. The characters are terrific! and I like the fact you have to keep on guessing until the very end as to who did what. Fantastic series.
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John K. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Murder investigation from both viewpoints
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2018
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My favorite so far in a great series. Sixteen year old Deborah Harrison is found murdered and molested in a church cemetery. There is no want for suspects. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the police quickly arrest school teacher and amateur photographer Owen Pierce. But Owen seems to be an innocent man in the wrong place at the wrong time. The book parallels Banks' investigation and Pierce's incarceration and trial, as well as the fickle nature of public sentiment. I found it fascinating seeing the story unfold from two sides and found myself rooting for both me. This was a joy to read and very highly recommended.
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T.A.-ME
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Talesman!
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2013
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Peter Robinson involves you in the daily life of the main character to the point where you become part of his family dynamic! The reader not only is brought into the professional side of Banks the detective, but sees the sensitivities of Inspector Banks the man. The hero is not without faults, and shares many flaws that we all find common.
Above all, Robinson tells a great story that continues to engage the reader throughout the book.
Well done!
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michael cockcroft
5.0 out of 5 stars Holds your interest.
Reviewed in Australia on August 20, 2020
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Great story and characters
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Subhash
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in India on December 8, 2016
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Wits thriller. . Brings
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Curtis Morrissey
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2016
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Enjoy all of Peter's books.
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Dorothy Allen
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in Spain on December 7, 2015
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I have read about eight books in the Inspector Banks serious and have enjoyed them all except this one. I fond it far fetched beyond belief not to mention quite boring in parts. Definitely not a page turner.
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Damaskcat
5.0 out of 5 stars Innocent Graves
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2014
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A teenage girl is found strangled and half dressed in a graveyard on a foggy evening. There are few suspects apart from her parents and DCI Alan Banks has been warned not to put pressure on them by the chief constable. When loner Owen Pierce, is identified as having been in the area and there is forensic evidence to link him to the girl and the girl to him it seems like an open and shut case. This book is a bit different from previous books in the series as some of the action is shown from Owen's perspective - not just from the point of view of the police characters involved.

I found this absorbing reading and it was far from clear how things were going to work out in the end. Some of the book does show human nature at its worst with a mob threatening to attack the suspect. The book is well written and I thought the trial scenes were excellent. The insights into the mind of the suspect were very well done too and I had huge sympathy for him.

This series can be read in any order, though I am reading them in the order in which they were published. If you like crime novels with an atmospheric background - in this case the Yorkshire Dales - then try the DCI Banks series. There is some violence but it isn't graphically described and there is some swearing but both the violence and the language are an integral part of the story.
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