Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26 by Peter RobinsonDefault Title (2024)

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What is the summary of the book many rivers to cross? ›

Summary. In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate. Detective Superintendent Banks and his team know they must tread carefully to solve this sensitive case. But tensions rise when they learn that the victim was stabbed somewhere else and dumped.

DCI Banks is a British television crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. Originally broadcast over five series in 2010–2016, the series was based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks.

The series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.

Book overview

Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, makes a formidable discovery in Israel, the consequence of which is the birth of Christopher and José, identical twins raised apart, one in affluent Sydney, the other in the slums of Buenos Aires.

DCI Banks: Aftermath – Filmed on location in Yorkshire, this ITV Detective Drama was based on the novel by Peter Robinson, who was born in Leeds. Four Lions – A 2010 dark comedy about Jihadi suicide bombers, with scenes filmed in Sheffield and Doncaster Robin Hood Airport.

ITV has cancelled its Dci Banks TV show after five seasons (series). Radio Times reports the fifth series will be the final outing. The program ended with the two-part finale, "Undertow, which will serve as the Dci Banks TV series finale.

After Steve was arrested for his crimes, DCI Banks ending concluded the series with a somber and touching scene that saw Banks saying goodbye to Annie at a cairn he'd built for her on the Yorkshire Moors and promising he'd keep an eye on her young daughter.

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A memorable YA novel about the tough and tender sides of growing up in a small country town. Fourteen-year-old Harry has a knack for wriggling out of trouble, but escaping the constraints and memories that keep him trapped is not so easy, until it's a matter of life or death.

In 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stephens-Murphy-Townsend company leaves Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the Sierra Nevada. They enjoy a safe journey–until October, when a fierce mountain snowstorm forces difficult decisions. The party separates in three directions.

Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate—the Savoyard Plantation—and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted.

What is the summary of the song of many rivers? ›

A Song of Many Rivers is a collection of stories along the banks of rivers from his childhood as well as during his travel to the Himalayas. Mr. Bond, in the book, narrates the different faces of rivers and how one ought to enjoy them.