From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson comes this gripping thriller--in the tradition of Louise Penny and Elizabeth George--set in a picturesque Yorkshire village during the upcoming Christmas season...but one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday.
Past Reason Hated is a relentlessly suspenseful novel that shows why Peter Robinson is one of the world\'s most acclaimed and popular mystery writers..
But that must wait until the many facets of a perplexing puzzle are exposed and the dark circle of his investigation finally closes...and when a killer makes the next move.
In this season of giving and forgiving, Banks is eager to absolve the innocent of their sins.
And now she is dead, clothed only in her unshared mysteries and her blood.
Leaving her Past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified more than a few.
She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas.
Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal, and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley\'s life...and death.
From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson comes this gripping thriller--in the tradition of Louise Penny and Elizabeth George--set in a picturesque Yorkshire village during the upcoming Christmas season...but one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday