Peter Robinson (19 kníh)
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Peter Robinson All the Colours of Darkness ENA beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of Othello. Everything points…
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Peter Robinson Až mě uloží do země CZChris Lowndes, úspěšný skladatel filmové hudby, se po smrti své ženy rozhodne vrátit do rodné Anglie. Koupí si starý dům na odlehlém místě, jenž ho od pohledu okouzlil, ale pak zjistí, že se tu před více než půl stoletím odehrála vražda: bývalého majitele, lékaře E. A. Foxe, údajně otrávila jeho krásná a mnohem mladší manželka Grace. Byla zatčena, odsouzena a oběšena. Ale byla vinna? Chrisova zvědavost se postupně…
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Peter Robinson Before the Poison ENAfter years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales. But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his own. He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House, and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn't surprise him that a man died there, sixty years ago. That his wife was convicted of murder. That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the…
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Peter Robinson Careless Love : DCI Banks 25The body of a young local student is found on a lonely country road. Initially the evidence points to suicide, yet she didn't own a car and she didn't even drive. So how did she get there, where did she die and who moved her...
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Peter Robinson, Ann Henderson-Sellers Contemporary Climatology ENNow in its second edition, Climatology continues to provide an up-to-date stimulating and comprehensive guide to the nature of the earth's climate. It presents a synthesis of contemporary scientific ideas about atmospheric circulation.Topics covered include: - Energy systems-The hydrological cycle-General circulation, local and regional climate-Application of climate information-Use of satellite observations 1.…
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Peter Robinson Dead Right ENThe broken body of Jason Fox has been found in a dirty alleyway. At first, it looks like a typical after-hours pub fight gone wrong. But Inspector Alan Banks soon realizes that the truth is rarely so straightforward...Jason was a member of the Albion League, a white power organization. And there are many people who might have wished him dead: the Pakistani youths he had insulted in the pub that evening; the shady…
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Peter Robinson Děti revoluce CZOdlehlé místo, dávno nepoužívaná železniční kolej – a mrtvola staršího muže, podivína, který se vyhýbal lidem. Zesnulý Gavin Miller býval učitelem, než ho obvinili ze sexuálního obtěžování studentky a vyhodili. Od té doby žil jako poustevník. Byla to vražda, sebevražda, náhoda? A odkud se vzalo pět tisíc liber, které se našly v jeho kapse? Šéfinspektoru Alanu Banksovi na tomhle případu od začátku něco nesedí. Je tu…
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Peter Robinson Friend of the Devil ENWhen Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI…
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Peter Robinson Friend of the Devil ENWhen Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI…
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Peter Robinson Neodvratný konec CZDalší napínavá detektivka s vrchním inspektorem Alanem Banksem. Poklidnou hladinu malého severoanglického městečka rozbouří politická demonstrace. Pokojné shromáždění se zvrhne v krvavý střet a na jeho konci zůstává na chodníku mrtvý policista. Kromě napínavé zápletky nám tato kniha dává nahlédnout do totalitní mentality thatcherismu osmdesátých let minulého století v Anglii. Může být tenhle politicky motivovaný čin…
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Peter Robinson Piece of My Heart (flipback) ENAs volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with - or less regard for - young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana…
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Peter Robinson Pohled do tmy CZV yorkshirském rehabilitačním zařízení pro policisty byl zabit uznávaný inspektor Bill Quinn. Vyšetřování se ujme místní detektiv Alan Banks, kompromitující fotografie nalezené v Quinnově pokoji by však mohly ohrozit pověst strážců zákona, proto se o vraždu začne zajímat i Joanna Passerová z oddělení inspekce. Svérázný Banks, neochotný s kýmkoli spolupracovat, trpí její přítomnost jen s největšími obtížemi. Na…
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Peter Robinson Suchomilné rastliny v záhradeAko správne pestovať odolné trvalky, tradičnú ozdobu záhonov a záhrad? Táto praktická a užitočná publikácia sa podrobne venuje všetkým okolnostiam, ktoré môžu nastať pri ich pestovaní. Zasvätený text sprevádzajú inštruktážne ilustrácie, tabuľky a grafy. Nájdete tu aj výber vhodných rastlín na suché miesta vrátane bylinných trvaliek a rastlín do púštnej záhrady a informácie o tom, ako maximálne využiť vodu v…
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Peter Robinson The Price of Love ENWhen DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the…
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Peter Robinson The Price of Love ENWhen DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and back streets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the…
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Peter Robinson Wednesday´s ChildFor Inspector Banks and Superintendent Gristhorpe, the abduction of a young girl brings back dreadful memories of the Moors Murders . . . <br> When two social workers investigating reports of child abuse appear at Brenda Scupham's door, her fear...
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Peter Robinson When the Music's Over ENTwo young girls. Two unspeakable crimes. Fifty years separate them - their pain connects them. When the body of a 15-year-old is found in a remote countryside lane, beaten and broken, DI Annie Cabbot is brought in to investigate how the child could possibly have fallen victim to such brutality. Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a case that is as cold as they come. Now in her 60s, Linda…
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Peter Robinson When the Music's Over ENIn a remote countryside lane in North Yorkshire, the body of a young girl is found, bruised and beaten, having apparently been thrown from a moving vehicle. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old could possibly fall victim to such a crime, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Alan Banks is faced with a similar task - but the case Banks must investigate is as cold as they come.…
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