Critiques en avant-premièrePeter Robinson

A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on holiday in San Francisco, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she’s found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin--a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon, the seemingly straightforward procedure quickly spirals out of control. But trouble is only beginning for Annie, the Eastvale force, and Banks—and this time, the fallout may finally do the iconoclastic inspector in. It turns out that Erin's best friend and roommate is none other than Tracy Banks, the DCI's daughter, who was last seen racing off to warn the owner of the gun, a very bad boy indeed. Thrust into a complicated and dangerous case intertwining the personal and the professional as never before, Annie and Banks--a bit of a bad boy himself--must risk everything to outsmart a smooth and devious psychopath. Both Annie and Banks understand that it's not just his career hanging in the balance, it’s also his daughter's life.

A stunning new thriller from the writer the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls "the equal of legends in the genre such as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell." Two towns. . . Two murders . . . Two detectives searching for one indisputable truth. When Karen Drew is found one chilly Sunday morning in March, sitting in her wheelchair with her throat cut, Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot, on loan to a sister precinct, draws the case. Back home in Eastvale on that same damp morning, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is pondering the brutal death of 19-year-old Hayley Daniels, found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind the market square. Two cases with two different paramaters: While Banks finds suspects galore, Annie hits a brick wall-until a breakthrough spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, straight towards Banks. Coincidence? Not when another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to bizarrely link the murders. As Banks and Annie search for answers, the emotional baggage of their personal relationship begins to surface, complicating the already complex investigation. And it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either might strike again. Peter Robinson's award-winning Inspector Banks novels have been named a "Best Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly, a "Notable Book" by the New York Times, and a "Page Turner of the Week" by People. Robinson was born and brought up in Yorkshire, but has lived in North America for more than 25 years.