Peter Robinson 8 Books Collection Pack Set Description Wednesdays Child When two social workers investigating reports of child abuse appear at Brenda Scuphams door her fear of authority leads her to comply meekly with their requests Even when they say that they must take her sevenyear old daughter Gemma away for tests It is only when they fail to return Gemma the following day that Brenda realizes something has gone terribly wrong The Hanging Valley A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil hidden valley below the village of Swainshead & when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives he finds that noone is willing to talk Bankss frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed For it seems that his latest case may be connected with an unsolved murder in the same area five years ago Among the silent suspects are the Collier brothers the wealthiest & most powerful family in Swainsdale When they start use their influence to slow down the investigation Inspector Alan Banks finds himself in a race against time Gallow View A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale two gluesniffing young thugs are breaking into homes & robbing people an old woman may or may not have been murdered Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks a perceptive curious & compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life In addition to all this Banks has to deal with the local feminists & his attraction to a young psychologist Jenny Fuller As the tension mounts both Jenny & Banks wife Sandra are drawn deeper into the events The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense & surprising climax All the Colours of Darkness A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales & a group of children are spending the last of their halfterm freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a mans body hanging from a tree DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle the wellliked & successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello Everything points to suicide & Annie is mystified Why would such a man want to take his own life Then Annies investigation leads to another shattering discovery & DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadowworld where nothing is what it seems where secrets & deceit are the norm & where murder is seen as the solution to a problem The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends & family Nobody is safe A Necessary End A reissue of the third Inspector Banks novel Violence erupts at an antinuclear demonstration in Eastvale leaving one policeman stabbed to death At first there are over a hundred suspects but then things narrow down to the people who live on Maggies Farm an isolated house high on the daleside Among the suspects is Dennis Osmond a social worker involved with Jenny Fuller Inspector Bankss friend Caedmons Song A long oily blackness punctuated by quick vivid dreams They were all just dreams She couldnt possibly see these things could she Her eyes were closed & if they really happened then she would have screamed out from the pain wouldnt she On a balmy June night Kirsten a young university student strolls home through a silent moonlit park Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked When she awakes in hospital she has no recollection of that brutal night But then slowly & painfully details reveal themselves dreams of two figures one white & one black hovering over her wisps of a strange & haunting song the unfamiliar texture of a rough & deadly hand In another part of England Martha Browne arrives in Whitby posing as an author doing research for a book But her research is of a particularly macabre variety Who is she hunting with such deadly determination & why A Dedicated Man The body of a wellliked local historian is found halfburied under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe Swainsdale Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful dedicated man Penny Cartwright a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past a shady landdeveloper Harrys editor & a local thriller writer are all suspects & all are figures from Harrys...