Abstract: When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreet 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 loose. In addition to the brand-new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and electric stories that have never before been published in the UK.