A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback)) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback)) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales -- a former university professor, wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted village.It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues -- by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman. But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces one ugly, indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote Yorkshire community that have already led to one death. And Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find his way to a killer before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback)) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Peter Robinson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback)) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• When the sun rose high enough to clear the slate roofs on the other side of the street, it crept through a chink in Sally Lumb's curtains and lit on a strand of gold blonde hair that curled over her cheek.