Stephen tompkinson wild at heart, grafters leads the cast as detective chief inspector alan banks, based on the hugely successful novels from award winning international crime writer peter robinson. Tompkinson stars in the tv adaptation of three inspector banks novels playing with fire, friend of the devil and cold is the grave. In playing with fire two bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and banks and ds annie cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people. In friend of the devil a young student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities. Cold is the grave is a case terrifyingly close to home as banks is asked by his boss, superintendant gerry rydell, to find his missing teenage daughter running time 360 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 31 oct. 2011