The Summer That Never Was is the thirteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series following on from Aftermath A skeleton has been unearthed Soon the body is identified & the horrific discovery hits the headlines Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965 The police found no trace of him His disappearance left his family shattered & his best friend Alan Banks full of guilt That friend has now become Chief Inspector Alan Banks & he is determined to bring justice for Graham But he soon realises that in this case the boundary between victim & perpetrator between law-guardian & law-breaker is becoming more & more blurred