Michael Connelly calls Peter Robinson ‘an writer with amazing empathy, a snare-trap hearing for dialogue, and a definite vision for the informing detail.’

See why in Sleeping in the Ground, the gripping new novel starring Alan Banking institutions – featuring an opening scene you’ll never forget, and a finale you won’t see coming.

At the doors of a charming country church, an unspeakable act destroys a marriage party. A huge manhunt ensues. At fault is captured. The story is over.

Except it isn’t. For Alan Banks, still fighting a tragic loss of his very own, there’s something amiss about this case – something unresolved. Reteaming with profiler Jenny Fuller, the relentless detective much deeper into the crime… deep enough to unearth long-buried secrets that reshape everything Banking institutions thought he understood about the occasions outdoors that chapel.

And when finally the shocking truth turns into clear, it’s almost too late.