num_pages: 352
description: A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales -- a former university professor, wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted village. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues -- by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman. But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces one ugly, indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote Yorkshire community that have already led to one death. And Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find his way to a killer before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.
language: English
title: A Dedicated Man
titlecomplete: A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks, #2)
characters: Sergeant Jim Hatchley, David Craig, Major Cartwright, Sally Lumb, David (Gallows View), Jack Barker, Sandra Banks, Emma Steadman, Carol Ellis, Constable Geoff Weaver, Miss Bamford, Harriet (Gallows View), Doc Barnes, Brian Banks, Cathy Chalmers, Fred Rowe, Charles Lumb, Penny Cartwright, Tracy Banks (aka Francesca), Michael Ramsden, Kevin (A Dedicated Man), Ann Downs, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Dr. Charles Stewart Glendenning, Superintendent Gristhorpe, Hazel Kirk, Robert Kirk, Mrs. Stanton, Harry Steadman, Teddy Hackett
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Police, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8397
places: Yorkshire, England, Helmthorpe in Swainsdale, Yorkshire, England
series: Inspector Banks
publisher: Avon