Dry Bones That Dream - Peter Robinson

It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrives at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically blasted him away with a shotgun.

Clearly a professional hit - but no one could believe that a man like Keith could be murdered. For the police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. And who, exactly is Robert Calvert?

The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist...