Dead Right

Product Description

A member of a neo-Nazi hate group is found stomped to death, and Inspector Banks at first thinks it’s an open and shut case–except for the nagging feeling that there’s an even darker side to the murder. Soon Banks finds himself caught up in a violent maelstrom of hate, greed, and twisted philosophy and must put his life on the line to find the truth. Available now. 2 cassettes. .

Amazon.com Review

There’s a deliberate lack of excessive angst and glamour in Peter Robinson’s books about Inspector Alan Banks and his fellow Yorkshire coppers, so first-time readers might think them bland. But under the books’ placid surfaces, whole worlds of crime and justice are being worked out. In this ninth book in his increasingly popular series, Robinson gives Banks some serious problems of a personal and professional nature: a neglected wife and a ruthlessly ambitious superior. He also drops Banks into a frighteningly realistic neo-Nazi group called the Albion League, whose activities include drug dealing and murder. Other books in the series available in paperback include , , , and .

From Kirkus Reviews

It looks like a common enough kind of crime: Outspoken young racist Jason Fox has been beaten and kicked to death in an alley on the way home from the pub where he insulted a trio of Pakistanis. But Mohammed (n‚ George) Mahmood and his friends insist that as much as they disliked Jason Fox, they had nothing to do with his murder, and there’s not enough evidence to hold them. So Chief Inspector Alan Banks, more and more on the outs with his wife, plunges into the case, determined to find out who the “policemen” were who rummaged through Fox’s flat before anyone knew he was dead, and what Fox’s neo-Nazi mates in the Albion League know about his death. Unfortunately, the Albion League’s headquarters are in Leeds, along with the home of Banks’s favorite violist, Pamela Jeffreys–and Chief Constable Jeremiah Riddle’s suspicions that Banks keeps returning to Leeds only to make beautiful music together with Pamela hardens into certainty after Banks follows an anonymous tip to Amsterdam on the very weekend when his squad is extracting a confession to the killing. Suspended from his job by Jimmy Riddle, Banks will have to work under the table with Detective Susan Gay (still sadly carrying a torch for him) to prove that sometimes you ought to look a convenient confession right back in the mouth. Though the unending whirl of soap-opera romance in Banks’s life can wear thin, his ninth procedural (Innocent Graves, 1996, etc.) is abrim with racial tension, patient detective work, and the hero’s appealing decency. —
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Review

“Sociologically acute.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Chilling and candid.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“An outstanding read.” (Booklist)

From the Back Cover

New York Timesbestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson brings us a tantalizing tale of suspense in this classic Inspector Banks thriller.
In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered by an unknown assailant. The shattering echoes of his death will be felt throughout a small provincial community on the edge because the victim was far from innocent, a youth whose sordid secret life was a tangle of bewildering contradictions. Now a dedicated policeman beset by his own tormenting demons must follow the leads into the darkest corners of the human mind in order to catch a killer.
Delving into the complicated human psyche, Blood at the Rootshowcases Peter Robinson s singular talent in an exceptional novel of suspense that will linger in readers minds long past the final page.”

About the Author

One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson is the bestselling, award-winning author of the Inspector Banks series; he has also written two short-story collections and three standalone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million co