When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago.
Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand-new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK.
The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love...
Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand-new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK.
The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love...
總督察艾倫．班克斯剛到東谷市時，日子過得就跟現在一樣一團糟，但現在他手中的信封卻顛覆他對二十年前某些事件的認知，這些事件導致他受調前往北方。
再一次走在記憶中的狹小巷弄，班克斯想起他最後一個案件，曾有幾晚在髒亂的倫敦蘇荷區度過，這裡除了有商人鬼鬼祟祟聚在危險的俱樂部，年輕女孩在此賣淫，還有殺手藏匿在此。本書不少全新的中篇小說不只補足硬漢督察班克斯到約克郡前的生活，還帶給讀者更多豐富有趣又不拘一格的故事，這些故事作者彼得．羅賓森皆未曾在英國出版。
東谷市女子撲克牌團體知道謀殺不過只是另一樁危險遊戲罷了。塞滿現金的一卡皮箱到底值不值得讓人為此失去生命？年經男孩透過一場悲劇了解愛情的代價。