A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hipswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree.
Chief Inspector Banks returns in number one bestselling Peter Robinson's new crime novel.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased -- a policeman who has since gone missing. The dead woman in the car had been running from something -- but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior -- and former lover -- Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope . . . and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.
Smithson "Smithy" Ide ha quarant'anni, pesa centocinquanta chili, e, con ancora indosso l'abito scuro del funerale dei genitori, salta in sella alla bicicletta della sua adolescenza e comincia a pedalare. Senza una meta, ma con un sogno: raggiungere la costa opposta degli Stati Uniti alla ricerca della sorella perduta da tempo. Senza saperlo, inizia un viaggio avventuroso e imprevedibile.
De l'amour éternel à l'inconstance et à la fragilité des sentiments, Greg Hrbek, étonnante découverte de la jeune littérature américaine, saisit, comme autant de fils entrelacés, toute l'intimité et l'intensité d'une liaison brûlante d'émotion et de désir. À travers l'histoire trouble de Tom et Lindsey, deux amants réunis par un passé commun lourd de secrets, La Chute du zeppelin à la nuit tombée nous parle de la passion charnelle et des irrésistibles élans du coeur, de nos rêves d'adolescents et de nos compromis. « Magnétique. » Publishers Weekly « Un portrait subtil, original et émouvant de l'angoisse contemporaine. » Kirkus Review « On songe à Armistead Maupin. » Time Out