Cold Is The Grave

Late one night, Chief Inspector Alan Banks is summoned to the home of Chief Constable Riddle. Riddle's sixteen-year-old daughter, Emily, has run away, and for once the chief constable is asking Banks to employ his unorthodox methods to find her. Banks tracks her down in London but discovers that she doesn't want to be found. She is living with gangster Barry Clough and insists that she is happy in her new life. Later, when she shows up at Banks's hotel asking for help, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the young girl's life. Banks finds himself caught in a complex web of drugs and murder, police and politics, and fathers and daughters. Peter Robinson is the recipient of numerous awards for his Inspector Banks novels, including the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for the French translation of In a Dry Season, the Edgar Award for the short story "Missing in Action," Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Award, and several Arthur Ellis Awards for Best Novel. In 2002, he was awarded the Dagger in the Library by the British Crime Writers' Association. Robinson was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to Canada after graduating from the University of Leeds. He now lives in Toronto.