A new edition of Aftermath, the 12th Banks novel, is being published on March 12 in the UK. With a new cover for the 25th anniversary of its release, this edition contains a foreword by Ian Rankin, Peter’s friend and fellow crime writer.
When a concerned neighbour calls the police to number 35, The Hill after a domestic disturbance, the two constables are led to a truly horrific scene. They unwittingly uncover an elusive serial killer known as the Chameleon. With the killer finally in custody, it appears the nightmare is over.
Not for Banks, though. Too many questions remain unanswered at the house of horrors.
When they discover that there are more bodies than victims, Banks is caught in his darkest case yet. Could it be that the Chameleon killer was just one monster of many?
Ian Rankin says, in his forward:
"Aftermath is the twelfth book in the series and was published at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It shows Banks not as a difficult loner or a maverick but as the leader of a team dedicated to digging down to buried truths, using the latest technological advances and profiling techniques. Banks himself has never been static as a character – his life evolves and he is changed by each case he works, his personal and professional entanglements playing a key role in every book. He broods and thinks and sups, falls in and out of love, has to deal with an ex-wife and her new-found happiness, all the time supported by a cast of characters who live, breathe and change as the series progresses.
"Peter Robinson created a body of work that will stand the test of time, and this book is among his very best. It can’t have been easy to write; it is a wonderful novel to read."
Peter Robinson 