[Inspector Banks] 17 Friend of the Devil

On a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a quadriplegic woman in a
wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. And,
miles away, in a storeroom in the Maze, a medieval warren of yards and
alleys at the heart of Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman lies sprawled
on a heap of leather scraps. She too has been murdered. Their bodies are
discovered at about the same time that DI Annie Cabbot, on secondment
to the Eastern Area force, wakes with a severe hangover in the bed of a
young man she barely recognizes. From these three strands, Peter
Robinson weaves his latest complex and compelling story.
While
DCI Alan Banks tries to figure out how anyone was able to murder Hayley
Daniels, when the closed-circuit cameras trained on the entrances to the
Maze show that no one preceded or followed her into its shadows, Cabbot