The Summer That Never Was is the 15th novel by crime-writer Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson (novelist)

Dr. Peter Robinson is an English crime writer, based in Canada. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks...

, published in 2003 and is 13th in the multi award-winning Inspector Alan Banks

Inspector Alan Banks

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is the fictional protagonist in a series of crime novels written by acclaimed writer Peter Robinson.-Background:...

series.

Plot summary

This novel is the tale of two missing boys. One, a boy from Detective Banks past whose body finally turns up many years later during construction on a building site. Alluded to in previous novels, now we learn the details. The second in the present day, gone missing, possibly kidnapped from Bank's home turf of Eastvale. Banks, officially on leave, goes home to Peterborough to assist with the inquiry into his childhood friend leaving the rest of his Eastvale team to deal with the ongoing disappearance.

External links

• Dedicated page on author's website, with extract