The Inspector Banks series is a collection of mystery novels by Peter Robinson about Detective Superintendent Alan Banks. The series is set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road [sic]. A former member of the London Metropolitan Police, Inspector Alan Banks leaves the capital for a quieter life in the Dales. Since 2010, several of the novels have been adapted for television under the series title DCI Banks.
Really Peter Robinson should stick to writing police procedurals and not try to convert Banks into some sort of spy novel.
It was okay but neither story line really gripped and the conclusion was too "spooks" to be realistic. If I wanted to read a spy novel I would buy a spy novel, instead I wanted a crime novel and this didn't really deliver.
