Sleeping In The Ground

Shadows Over Bramford Marsh

In Sleeping in the Ground, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most unsettling case yet when two bodies are unearthed on the windswept banks of Bramford Marsh. What begins as the discovery of an unidentified woman—her face eerily familiar—soon spirals into a hunt through decades-old secrets. Banks, still reeling from personal loss, must navigate shifting loyalties within his own team and a community haunted by tragedy. As the tides rise and fall, the marsh seems to whisper memories of a crime never fully laid to rest—and a killer who may have walked free for too long.

Echoes in the Mist

As Banks and his partner Annie Cabbot dig deeper, they uncover a web of connections linking the murdered woman to a high-profile disappearance twenty years before. Reopening cold files takes them from abandoned industrial sites to decaying manor houses, where every lead is tangled in half-truths and hushed warnings. Banks’s pursuit draws him into the lives of those whose grief still lingers like a stale fog: a remorseful doctor, a schoolteacher with a hidden past, and a local journalist determined to expose what everyone else would rather keep buried.

Confronting the Darkness Within

Haunted by the line between justice and revenge, Banks must confront his own demons as the investigation edges toward a final, heart-stopping confrontation on the marsh itself. With time slipping away and the killer’s next move unpredictable, he races to decode cryptic clues hidden in old photographs and confession letters. In a landscape where water and mire conspire to swallow the unwary, Banks faces a reckoning that will test the limits of his compassion—and his will to see the truth brought to light.

.Peter Robinson is the internationally bestselling author of the Inspector Banks series, acclaimed for his richly atmospheric crime novels, complex characters, and unflinching exploration of moral ambiguity.