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Synopsis

A Chief Inspector Banks Novel

To an observer looking down from the peak of Brimleigh Beacon early that Monday morning, the scene below might have resembled the aftermath of a battle. It had rained briefly during the night, and the pale sun coaxed tendrils of mist from the damp earth. They swirled over fields dotted with motionless shapes, mingling here and there with the darker smoke of smouldering embers.

The end of the Summer of '69. The end of the biggest rock festival Yorkshire has ever seen. The end of a life.

As the organisers clear up after the party, they find an abandoned sleeping bag containing the body of a young woman, brutally murdered. Detective Chief Inspector Stanley Chadwick, a hard-headed WWII veteran, is assigned to the case. Chadwick has no time for the youth of the day, disrespectful and caring nothing for the sacfices made by older generations. Nonetheless, the course of the investigation finds Chadwick drawn into the psychedelic Sixties pop scene.

After a difficult summer, DCI Alan Banks is back home in the Yorkshire Dales. When he is called to investigate the murder of a journalist writing about popular rock group 'The Mad Hatters', he discovers this is not the first time these aging rockstars have been brushed by tragedy. Banks will have to go back a generation to discover exactly what kind of hornets' nest has been stirred up.

Peter Robinson's stunning new Chief Inspector Banks Novel is his richest and most compelling yet.

Press Reviews

Watch for those twists - they'll get you every time - Ian Rankin

The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market. In fact, this may be the best series of British novels since the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Try one and tell me I'm wrong. - Stephen King

If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before, prepare for a crash course in taut, clean writing and subtle psychology - Ian Rankin

Demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't...A considerable achievement - Guardian

About the Author

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now lives in Canada. Piece of Heart is the 16th book in his bestselling Inspector Banks series. The 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.