DCI Banks audiobooks in order
Alan Banks, a detective who left London for the Yorkshire Dales, in a procedural series that runs from the late eighties to the twenty-twenties. The basis for the ITV series.
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Which order should you listen in?
Publication order. Banks's private life moves on book by book — marriage, divorce, children, promotions — so the early ones read oddly after the later. The US editions retitled a few; those titles are shown in brackets.
Before you buy a run: Piece of My Heart has no UK audiobook on sale: the store lists a Geoff Annis reading but marks it not available to buy.
DCI Banks in publication order
- 1
Gallows View (1987)Read by Simon Slater · 8h 59m unabridged - 2
A Dedicated Man (1988)Read by Simon Slater · 9h 1m unabridged - 3
A Necessary End (1989)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 22m unabridged - 4
The Hanging Valley (1989)Read by Simon Slater · 9h 48m unabridged - 5
Past Reason Hated (1991)Read by Simon Slater · 12h 37m unabridged - 6
Wednesday's Child (1992)Read by Simon Slater · 10h 26m unabridged - 7
Dry Bones That Dream (US: Final Account) (1994)Read by Simon Slater · 10h 32m unabridged - 8
Innocent Graves (1996)Read by Simon Slater · 12h 47m unabridged - 9
Dead Right (US: Blood at the Root) (1997)Read by Simon Slater · 10h 35m unabridged - 10
In a Dry Season (1999)Read by Simon Slater · 15h 21m unabridged - 11
Cold Is the Grave (2000)Read by Simon Slater · 14h 52m unabridged - 12
Aftermath (2001)Read by Simon Slater · 15h 13m unabridged - 13
The Summer That Never Was (US: Close to Home) (2003)Read by Simon Slater · 14h 45m unabridged - 14
Playing with Fire (2004)Read by Simon Slater · 12h 49m unabridged - 15
Strange Affair (2005)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 48m unabridged - 16
Piece of My Heart (2006)No unabridged UK audiobook found - 17
Friend of the Devil (2007)Read by Richard Burnip · 14h 57m unabridged - 18
All the Colours of Darkness (2008)Read by Richard Burnip · 14h 19m unabridged - 19
Bad Boy (2010)Read by Mark Hadfield · 12h 6m unabridged - 20
Watching the Dark (2012)Read by Simon Slater · 13h 38m unabridged - 21
Children of the Revolution (2013)Read by Simon Slater · 12h 59m unabridged - 22
Abattoir Blues (US: In the Dark Places) (2014)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 58m unabridged - 23
When the Music's Over (2016)Read by Simon Slater · 16h unabridged - 24
Sleeping in the Ground (2017)Read by Simon Slater · 12h 2m unabridged - 25
Careless Love (2018)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 46m unabridged - 26
Many Rivers to Cross (2019)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 58m unabridged - 27
Not Dark Yet (2021)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 50m unabridged - 28
Standing in the Shadows (2023)Read by Simon Slater · 11h 20m unabridged