Wednesday's Child: Book 6 in the number one bestselling Inspector Banks series Robinson, Peter

A seven-year-old girl vanishes from her council estate home, and Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is hunting for answers in a case where nobody's telling the truth. The mother's story doesn't add up. The social workers are hiding something. And the longer Gemma Scupham stays missing, the darker the possibilities become. Peter Robinson ratchets up the tension as Banks navigates class prejudice, bureaucratic stonewalling, and his own fraying nerves in a race against time. This is the Yorkshire moors at their bleakest — morally and meteorologically — and Robinson never lets you forget what's at stake. If you like Ian Rankin's Rebus or Val McDermid's Wire in the Blood, Banks will feel like an old mate you should've met years ago.