Cold is the grave

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Banks's superior officer, Chief Constable Riddle — with whom Banks has a thoroughly unpleasant relationship — asks Banks to find his daughter Emily, who appears on a pornographic website and has been missing for weeks. Banks finds Emily in London in a situation more complicated than it first appears, and what starts as a personal favor becomes a murder investigation that threatens to implicate Emily herself. Peter Robinson's eleventh Inspector Banks novel is his most emotionally complicated — the Banks/Riddle dynamic is at its most difficult, and the choices Banks makes to protect Emily have significant consequences.