When the Music's Over: An Inspector Banks Novel (Inspector Banks Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B018257MBO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 440 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among his many honors and prizes are the Edgar Award, the CWA (UK) Dagger in the Library Award, and Sweden’s Martin Beck Award.. One of the world’s most popular and acclaimed writers, Peter Robinson is the bestselling, award-winning author of the Inspector Banks series; he has also written two short-story collections and three standalone novels, which combined have sold more than ten million copies around the world
From the Back CoverA baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective’s most intense and gripping case yet—from an author hailed by Louise Penny as “a writer at the top of his game.”With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating a young woman’s death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly per-petrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Music’s Over is the finest novel to date from one
A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective’s most intense and gripping case yet – from an author hailed by Louise Penny as “a writer at the top of his game.”With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young woman’s death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly perpetrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and it’s Banks’ job to discover the shocking truth.As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton’s manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence – as the investigation leads him down the darkest of paths…Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Music’s Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.
"Not One of Robinson's Best, but Worth Reading" according to Smokey. .I am a big fan of Peter Robinson, and I like his Alan Banks books very much. This series entry is paced more slowly than most of the others and the solutions to the crimes a little too drawn out. On the other hand, the societal and cultural issues associated with the crimes are addressed with much thought and should make readers examine these issues. In the novel, Banks, who has been promoted to superintendent, is assigned to investigate charges of a rape that happened decades earlier and in which a popular celebrity is accused of the cri. Better and Better Newly promoted to detective superintendent, Alan Banks is working a frustrating cold case while his colleague DI Annie Cabbot is investigating a current case--the gang rape and brutal murder of a young girl.Banks has been given the chore of building a case of rape of a minor against an entertainment icon--though the alleged incident occurred four decades earlier and all files on the original complaint have gone missing.Annie is struggling against enormous odds to find justice for a girl many in her hometown considered trash. There are raci. Time to move on I've read them all, some two or three times, and been a fan from the beginning; frankly this latest just doesn't click. Yes, it checks all the boxes, three piece suite, etc., but it doesn't reach out and grab you like you might expect. Frankly Banks hardly plays a part, this is an Anne story front to back. And perhaps it's my advancing age, but the title and it's graphic appear to have nothing whatsoever to do with the story. This is a formula book and nothing more, written for profit by a worthy writer who has rung his protagonist dry. He