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Innocent Graves: An Inspector Banks Mystery (Paperback)

by Peter Robinson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; 3 edition (14 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330482181
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330482189
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,025 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Robinson is steadily ascending toward the pinnacle of crime fiction.' Publishers Weekly; 'Atmospheric... distinguished by a deep understanding of human nature and its foibles.' Time Out


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'If you haven't caught up with Peter Robinson already, now is the time to start.' Independent Sunday

One foggy night, Deborah Harrison is found lying in the churchyard behind St Mary's, Eastvale. She has been strangled with the strap of her own school satchel.

But Deborah was no typical sixteen-year-old. Her father was a powerful financier who moved in the highest echelons of industry, defence and classified information. And Deborah, it seemed, enjoyed keeping secrets of her own....

With his colleague Detective Constable Susan Gray, Inspector Alan Banks moves among the many suspects, guilty of crimes large and small. And as he does so, plenty of sordid secrets and some deadly lies begin to emerge....

'The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling evocative, deeply nuanced works of art'. Dennis Lehane

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars English Henning Mankell, 14 Jun 2003
By Stuart Rickards "bravestui" (Schermbeck) - See all my reviews
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I have never read anything from Peter Robinson before and was looking for a book to read on the beach. I have already exhausted what Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender has to offer so I thought I would try another detective in Peter Robinsons Ian Banks. I was not dissapointed! The book grips you and keeps you interested. Like Mankell it has no big city glamour or a dashing hero so it has a more believable feel to it. And like all good detective mysteries it keeps you guessing. I still prefer Henning Mankell's writing but whilst I am waiting for his next one I have a more than worthy substitute to be getting on with.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Peter Robinson goes from strength to strength, 13 Oct 2008
By N. Shepherd (Prague, Czech Republic) - See all my reviews
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Since I gave a favourable review to the first of the Banks series, Gallows View, I have read nearly all of the rest of the books in the series. I have enjoyed them all, but this one is by far the best yet.

It marks a new departure in Robinson's style. The preceding novels tend to focus on Banks himself, whereas his viewpoint is one of many in this novel. For the first time, we see a significant part of the action through the eyes of a suspect - Owen Pierce, who is suspected of the murder of a teenage girl. This means we get very little of Banks's family life, and I for one consider this a bonus. When reading a detective novel, I can't muster up much interest in the detectives' relationships, marital problems etc. Not that Robinson overdoes it in his other books, but the passages involving Banks's wife and kids are the ones that I have found least gripping, as a rule.

The other significant departure is that we see Banks and some of his team as rather more brutal than before. They are convinced that they have the right man for the murder, and go well beyond what should be acceptable police procedure to prove it. When they find that Pierce has an edition of Playboy, a dirty video and a copy of Lady Chatterley (!), they treat him as a pervert. In interview they bully him and twist his words until he becomes so confused he starts to contradict himself, to their great delight. This part made for uncomfortable reading, as did Pierce's treatment at the hands of the police while in custody. What Robinson does here is move his police characters away from likeable, dependable, upright types with civilised tastes towards single-minded, inflexible people who don't mind making the evidence fit the suspect rather than, as it should be, the reverse. I lost some respect for the characters due to this but this was clearly intentional - it is an honest portrayal of how many police officers actually behave. Not surprisingly, I was rooting for Owen at the trial - how that turns out is, of couse, for you to read for yourselves.

With Innocent Graves, Robinson has moved ever closer towards realism which is what makes the book so gripping. Better still, he succeeds at this without resorting to the sort of macho posturing so prevalent in many detective novels and cop shows.

I strongly recommend this and find it sad that to date it has so few Amazon reviews in comparison to some of the garbage that clogs up the bestseller lists. Enjoy!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Where The Series REALLY Grows Up!, 11 Jul 2007
By Kevan James "yeskev" - See all my reviews
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I love Peter Robinson's Banks stories and going back to read them again one after the other really lets you see the development. For me this is the book where the series goes from quite polite thrillers to big meaty thrillers. This is acheived by having two stories running together - the Alan Banks story line, where he's investigating the murder, and the story through the eyes of the man accused with the crime. Excellent stuff!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable thriller
A typical police procedural novel featuring the engaging Inspector Banks. A seemingly senseless murder - a sex crime that wasn't, or was it? Read more
Published 3 months ago by Peter Smith

4.0 out of 5 stars "Are you saying you still don't think he did it, sir?"
If you are familiar with the Inspector Banks novels, get ready for a noticeable change in the usual flow of the story. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Sebastian Fernandez

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it
To me this is how a good crime story should be done, its not trying to be pretentious, it doesn't lose itself up its own bottom, its main character is believable, likeable and has... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2007 by kimmy

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Gripping Tale from the Author

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of a number of previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2007 by J. Chippindale

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Inspector Banks so far
I found Innocent Graves to be an excellent, gripping read. Having read each book in this series from Gallows View onwards I believe this one to be the best. Recommended.
Published on 27 Feb 2006 by I. H. Robinson

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