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The twenty second instalment of the grisly bestselling DCI Banks series. Also an award winning TV series starring Stephen Tompkinson.

Two missing boys.
A stolen bolt gun.
One fatal shot.

Three ingredients for murder.

Misled from the start, DCI Banks and his team are far from enthusiastic when they're called to investigate the theft of a tractor. But this is no trivial case of rural crime. A blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, two main suspects vanish without a trace, and events take a darkly sinister turn.

As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels like the case is coming to a dead end. Until a road accident reveals some alarming evidence, which throws the investigation to a frightening new level.

Someone is trying to cover their tracks - someone with very deadly intent . . .

'Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation' - The Observer

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Praise for Peter Robinson - :

Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league - The Times

Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader - Independent

It's neither the setting nor even the characters that makes Robinson's work so satisfying, but the plotting of Swiss-watch precision - Independent

Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation - Observer

Praise for ABATTOIR BLUES - :

As always with the excellent DCI Alan Banks novels, you can expect the story to grip you from beginning to end. - Choice

A real page-turner that confirms Robinson as a master of crime fiction. - Bella Magazine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Praise for Peter Robinson - :

Classic Robinson: a labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation - Observer

Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader - Independent

[Peter Robinson deserves a place] near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league - The Times

It's neither the setting nor even the characters that makes Robinson's work so satisfying, but the plotting of Swiss-watch precision - Independent

As always with the excellent DCI Alan Banks novels, you can expect the story to grip you from beginning to end. - Choice

A real page-turner that confirms Robinson as a master of crime fiction. - Bella Magazine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The twenty-second novel in Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are twenty-two books in the bestselling DCI Banks series - the critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

Peter Robinson's DCI Banks is now a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot. The first series aired in Autumn 2011 with an adaptation of FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, the second in Autumn 2012, and the third airs in February 2014. Peter's recent standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.

Peter keeps a website at www.inspectorbanks.com. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Peter Robinson's DCI Banks is a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) as DI Annie Cabbot.

Peter's standalone novel BEFORE THE POISON won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada.

Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. Peter keeps a website at www.inspectorbanks.com. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B00IORP8WG
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton (31 July 2014)
Language : English
File size : 1643 KB
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 385 pages

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Louis Doyle

Another winner for DCI Banks and Peter Robinson

Reviewed in Australia on 26 November 2014

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I can't get enough of DCI Banks and his team. When you think it can't get any better then something else happens. Will Annie and Banks get back together? Will Winsome be happy with her new love. How about Dirty Dick Burgess and his Gervaise? Oh, and then there are the murders and expert story lines. Looking forward to the next DCI Banks thriller.

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Fast paced thriller

Reviewed in Australia on 7 October 2017

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The author just gets better and better at invoking police work. The grinding pace of a systematic approach juxtaposed with gut intuition. Mix in gruesome murders cliff hanging changes from scene to scene an you have a heady mix.

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Boardie

Another winner featuring Alan Banks and Annie Cabot

Reviewed in Australia on 8 December 2014

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Keeping up the good story of Alan Banks. Robinson writes a fast paced believable thriller as always and we have the added bonus of a bit of "love" between Winsome and one of the "suspects" who turns out to be a good guy as you would imagine. Good read but why does Robinson always portray Yorkshire as being soooooo bleak. It is sometimes but not always Peter!!

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as a first time reader, the book impressed me ...

Reviewed in Australia on 24 June 2015

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as a first time reader, the book impressed me.I have watched series on tv and now will read his other books. very enjoyable and able to relate to characters

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Richard Goninan

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 17 June 2017

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I have read all the Banks mysteries & never been dis-appointed

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Dianne Guthrie

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2015

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Usual great read of an Alan Banks book.

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Scilla Woolley

Abattoir Blues

Reviewed in Australia on 1 August 2015

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Peter Robinson always has well crafted plots and engaging characters, and he writes well. One of my favourite thriller writers.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 19 May 2016

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best one of Peter Robinson's for sometime.

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Jl Adcock

Weak writing and story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2019

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Something has happened to Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series. Abattoir Blues, the 22nd outing in the sequence, feels like a lazy entry into what, at times, has been a generally very well-written series of stories. The plotting seems pedestrian, the characters acting like teenagers in love for the most part, and Banks himself seems adrift. The story - what there is of it - involves the theft of a tractor, a gruesome murder, bad weather, an inevitable trip down to London for Banks at some stage of the book, and a finale set in snowy dales and caves. It's a very uneven book, and at times feels like it hasn't been written by Robinson, who is capable of much better than this. The "professional" review quotes from people in the media world - ( who have probably not read Abattoir Blues ) - that accompany the book seem to refer to another title completely - this one is borderline dross.

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Alan in Durham

Went out with a whimper.....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 January 2020

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This is one of his novels that starts with a few minorish events. A stolen tractor and a lorry crash with Banks off on holiday.

We now have 5 regular characters in support of Banks although Madame Gervaise is always tied down to her office while Gerry and Doug are still to develop fully. But this widens the story telling well. Winsome in love? Annie on the mend? And those diverse elements become a single intertwined investigation.

But..... he brings in Dirty Dick Burgess again. His involvement seems tenuous but draws a significant part of the story to a largely abbreviated conclusion albeit we have a threat to Winsomes life and a chase while she runs for her life.

Hence a whimper and navel gazing. No sign of promoting him from last story and Nowak seen briefly with rank of DS.

3 and three quarter stars for the writing.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2016

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This is another very good read.
I was born in Leeds, I know the dales.
DCI Banks lives,I think, in Grantly where a friend was head teacher of the Primary School
I was in the Leeds City Police then The West Yorkshire Constabulary.
Of my 28 years service 20 were concerned with the investigation of deaths in all forms and included 3 years attached to the Forensic Science laboritories, first at Harrogate then at Wetherby. I was involved in the investigation of most of the so called Ripper murders.
These DCI Banks books are the first fictionalized murder stories I have been able to read.
Peter Robinson certainly tells it just like it is, I am only sad that I have now read nearly all of them.

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David G

Brilliant Crime writing yet again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2020

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As usual I was engrossed in the Crime story but yet again we are being swamped by information regarding DCI Banks/or the authors love of music. Over the 22 books in the series the reference to music is becoming harder to ignore. I skip over those sections as I have no knowledge of the type of music enjoyed and find there is actually less crime story to read because of it. I cannot believe any detective in real life would be so obsessed.

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Tomsreads

A pleasant surprise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 December 2017

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I really don't like the TV series and bought this in a weak moment to read on holiday. Having bought it I let it lie without reading until last week. I should have read this on holiday for it is extremely good. Engrossing, well written, believable characters (Banks is much nicer in the book that that idiot portrayal on TV) and a great deal of credible excitement. The touch of romance with Winsome and Gilchrist was lovely. Good read

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