Omtale
Cold is the grave ; The summer that never was
Cold is the grave: Detective Inspector Alan Banks's relationship with Chief Constable Riddle has always been strained. So Banks is more than a little surprised when Riddle summons him late one night and begs for help. Six months ago his sixteen-year-old daughter ran away to London, where she has fallen into a turbulent world of drugs and pornography. With his reputation threatened, Riddle wants Banks to use his unorthodox methods to find her without fuss, but before he knows it, Banks is investigating murder. The summer that never was: A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines. Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965. The police found no trace of him. His disappearance left his family shattered, and his best friend, Alan Banks, full of guilt. That friend has now become Chief Inspector Alan Banks. With the Marshall case reopened, he finds himself under suspicion. At the same time a teenager has disappeared in Yorkshire, and for Banks, uncanny parallels begin to echo across the decades.
