When a faceless corpse is found near the English village of Swainshead, Inspector Alan Banks finds several suspects in the village.

When the body of a young man is found stomped to death, Detective Chief Inspector Banks believes that he has an open-and-shut case, but he soon finds himself thrust into a violent maelstrom of hate, greed, and twisted neo-Nazi philosophy.

Inspector Banks is to locate Emily, his enemy Chief Constable Riddle's teenaged daughter, who has run away to London. When Banks finds her, he forges an odd friendship with the wild, rebellious girl. He is horrified, then, whe she dies from strychnine-laced cocaine a few weeks later. As the troubled Inspector tries to find the killer in London's trendy club scene, he is nagged by a persistent suspicion that both Riddle and his wife may be withholding...

Inspector Alan Banks heads to London after receiving a disturbing call from his estranged brother, while back in Eastvale, detective Annie Cabbot's investigation of a young woman's death uncovers a connection to someone close to Annie.

When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. Inspector Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing is as it seems.

When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.

After leaving the violence of London behind, Chief Inspector Alan Banks settles in the English countryside only to be confronted with the murder of an esteemed scholar and is forced to delve into the dark past of his rural community to find the killer.

There are human bones, buried in an open field, the remains a a lost teenaged boy whose disappearance devastated a community more than thirty-five years ago. Chief Inspector Alan Banks must go into some pretty dark places to find the evil that lurks there.