In the Dark Places

<p><strong>Published in the United Kingdom and Canada as <em>Abattoir Blues</em></strong></p><p>Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is back in this crackling novel of suspense a moody and sophisticated mystery full of serpentine curves from <em>New York Times</em> bestselling Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson.</p><p>One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with this sensational new novel featuring Inspector Alan Banks hailed by Michael Connelly as a man for all seasons.</p><p>It's a double mystery: Two young men have vanished and the investigation leads to two troubling clues in two different locations--a scorched van and a peculiar bloodstain in an abandoned airport hangar.</p><p>As Banks and his team scramble for answers the inquiry takes an even darker turn when a truck careens off an icy road in a freak hailstorm. In the wreckage rescuers find the driver who was killed on impact as well as another body--a body that was dead well before the crash.</p><p>Snow falls. The body count rises. And Banks perceptive and curious as ever feels himself being drawn deeper into a web of crime and at its center something--or someone--dark and dangerous lying in wait.</p><p>Vibrating with tension ingeniously plotted and filled with soul and poignancy <em>In the Dark Places</em> is a remarkable achievement from this masterful talent.</p>