Dry Bones That Dream & The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson [Paperback: Average]

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Dry Bones That Dream: It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time.  Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and blasted him with a shotgun. It was clinical. Clearly this is a professional hit but Keith Rothwell was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he?
The investigation soon raises more questions than answers. The name Robert Calvert comes up. Who exactly is he? The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. When his old sparring partner, Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess, arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist...

The Hanging Valley: A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. When Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives, he finds that no-one is willing to talk. Banks' frustration only grows when the identity of the body is revealed. For it seems that his latest case may be connected with an unsolved murder in the same area five years ago. Among the silent suspects are the Collier brothers, the wealthiest and most powerful family in the community. When they start using their influence to slow down the investigation, Inspector Alan Banks finds himself in a race against time.