Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-09-26 21:40:33 Boxid IA151201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor The much-honored Robinson (Friend of the Devil, 2008, etc.) revisits a concept even Agatha Christie, in one of her last novels, couldn’t bring to life. Despite his far more subtle and powerful psychological insight, he doesn’t pull it off either. The "Othello" and Iago strands in the story are fascinating. Banks often has girlfriend trouble; this time it's with Sophia. As in many detective novels Banks is defying his bosses in the search for truth. Banks keeps dragging Annie over the brink into his unsanctioned investigation. Then the two of them are out there isolated swinging in the wind--two loners versus the system. Banks, the truth-seeker, is rattling cages, putting himself and Annie in danger of losing their careers. Banks says, "You have to dig deeper. You have to know." Just try putting the book down after a chapter or so: you’ll have a problem.” The Independent; read full review

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urn:oclc:851995571 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120103173840 Scanner scribe2.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Source After reading a not-so-hot book, I will often turn to my short list of reliably good writers, as I did here. Peter Robinson doesn't seem to have the capability to produce a bad book. I've read quite a few of his Inspector Banks' mysteries and have thoroughly enjoyed each. Too many questions are left unanswered to suit Banks' "copper's curiosity," and soon the stubborn and diligent chief inspector embarks on a further investigation -- unofficial -- into the untimely deaths of the two gay lovers. One of the dead men was a retired MI6 agent; it isn't long that government agents make their dissatisfaction with Banks' curiosity known.

Their knives and forks were tightly wrapped with in serviettes and bound with a strip of blue paper. Winsome's knife was spotty from the dishwasher." Is she? Arnold said, looking at the kitchen door with interest. Meeting here wasn’t Walker’s idea. It was mine. I’ve noticed that the place is usually deserted this time of night. Robinson έχει το ελεύθερο να χρησιμοποιήσει τη συγγραφική του δεινότητα με τρόπο ώστε να ιντριγκάρει τους αναγνώστες, να τους επιτρέψει να κοιτάξουν για μια στιγμή από την κλειδαρότρυπα σ’ αυτόν τον κόσμο που μοιάζει τόσο μακρινός από όλους εμάς, αλλά χωρίς να πλησιάσει αρκετά. Τα όσα αναφέρονται, άλλωστε, μάλλον δεν απέχουν και τόσο πολύ από τις πραγματικές συνθήκες που διέπουν συνήθως τέτοιες περιπτώσεις – οπωσδήποτε, πάντως, δεν φαντάζουν υπερβολικές ή εξωπραγματικές. She was full of contradictions, this one, Banks thought. A young beauty, tough as nails, vulnerable, but with another hard centre inside the soft one."

Arnold sighed around a bite of hamburger. Seems like a long way to go, just to enjoy the view. He sighed again, and carefully patted his perspiration-streaked bald head with a handkerchief. Air conditioning feels good. Because you could see the urubus flying and the occasional giant iguana just outside of their rehearsal room, but inside it’s all death metal and darkness. All colors of darkness. Watkins bounced out in front of them. His face was flushed, his white hair ruffled. He was waving a bottle of champagne. Similarly, I think he is trying to go for a hyper-observant effect by choosing irrelevant crap and then describing it in completely excessive detail. Children find a man's body hanging from a tree in a local beauty spot. It seems like a simple and tragic case of suicide but it turns out to be far from simple when the man's lover is also found dead, apparently murdered at home. At first it seems like a murder followed by suicide perhaps sparked by sexual jealousy but neither Banks nor DI Annie Cabbot are convinced that this is the whole story and some information from the murdered man's mother leads Banks to think there could be more wide ranging ramifications to the case.

Watkins roared. I didn’t see any state line. I’m going to get the directors down here. Every one of them. We’ll throw a real party. Then we can go ahead. Then— Watkins leaped to his feet. Then we can start operating, he said excitedly. We’ll get some money coming in, and we’ll be all right.

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Alan Banks is in London with his new girlfriend Sophia when news of the kids’ ghastly discovery reaches the police in Eastvale, so the case falls to Annie Cabbot. And she’s mystified. Why would Mark Hardcastle, a successful set and costume designer with a well-reviewed production of Othello currently playing at the recently restored Eastvale Theatre, be in such despair that he would take his own life? Or did he? Banks is more than a little peeved when the investigation is suddenly called to a close only a couple of days later, determined to be no more than what it first appeared to be. urn:lcp:allcolorsofdark000robi:lcpdf:148d5bdc-fd6c-46ab-a47b-0b326c958371 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier allcolorsofdark000robi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3st8mv35 Isbn 9780061362941 In a switch from the henning mankell novel recenyly read, we have a mystery here which is not resolved until the end. We follow banks as he progresses through the investigation. That said I really enjoyed the deceptively straightforward style of Peter Robinson's storytelling. While it's all in the third person, he cleverly posits the reader into the mindset of the chief protagonist in each section of the story. Sometimes with humour, sometimes with cynicism and often with a keen sense of mystery. Because Yorkshire is Banks' home base, it makes for a dramatic contrast between the innate picturesque beauty of the county and the tough underbelly of the people who live on the housing estates outside the tourist towns, many struggling with the high crime rate and inclement weather.

You can't intimidate me with the graphic horror of it all. I've seen dead bodies. I've even seen Saw IV and Hostel Part II." This is a frightening and convoluted story involving smoke and mirrors and people who are definitely not what they seem to be. It also involves a personal crisis for Banks where once again his work has and adverse effect on his private life.

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