Cold Is the Grave: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Novels)

The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks for help. But these are not typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banks -- a father himself -- dares not ignore, as he follows its squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon after -- gruesome, sensational, and more than once -- pulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle.