Cold is the Grave is the eleventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series following on from In A Dry Season Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point With his wife now living with another man in London & his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Constable Riddle it is time to ring the changes Perhaps a move to the National Crime Squad? Perhaps a second chance with Sandra? But then late one night he is summoned to Riddle's house
- & his plans take a surprising new turn For the Chief Constable's sixteen-year-old daughter Emily has run away & for once Riddle wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to find her without fuss