Inspector Banks series The novels are set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the
Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road. •
Gallows View (1987), •
A Dedicated Man (1988), •
A Necessary End (1989), •
The Hanging Valley (1989), •
Past Reason Hated (1991), • ''
Wednesday's Child'' (1992), •
Dry Bones That Dream (1994), (published in the United States as
Final Account) •
Innocent Graves (1996), •
Dead Right (1997), (published in the United States as
Blood at the Root) •
In a Dry Season (1999), •
Cold Is the Grave (2000), •
Aftermath (2001), •
The Summer that Never Was (2003), (published in the United States as
Close to Home) •
Playing with Fire (2004), •
Strange Affair (2005), •
Piece of My Heart (2006), •
Friend of the Devil (2007), •
All the Colours of Darkness (2008), •
Bad Boy (2010), •
Watching the Dark (2012), •
Children of the Revolution (2013), •
Abattoir Blues (2014), (published in the United States as
In the Dark Places) • ''
When the Music's Over'' (2016), •
Sleeping in the Ground (2017), •
Careless Love (2018), •
Many Rivers to Cross (2019), •
Not Dark Yet (2021), •
Standing in the Shadows (2023),
Other works Although ''Caedmon's Song
is a standalone novella, it is related to Friend of the Devil
, which is also related to Aftermath''. • ''
Caedmon's Song'' (1990), •
The First Cut – American edition of ''
Caedmon's Song'' (1993), •
No Cure for Love (1995), •
Not Safe After Dark (
Crippen & Landru, 1998 &
Macmillan Publishers, 2004), (Short stories; includes three Inspector Banks stories) •
The Price of Love (2009), (Short stories; includes an Inspector Banks novella and three Banks stories) •
Before the Poison (2011), ==References==