Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780330469401
ISBN: 0330469401
Label: Charles Scribner's Sons
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Studio: Charles Scribner's Sons
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Rating: - Explores all sorts of issues.
This book explores all sorts of issues. The issue of family violence, the issue of sexuality, the issue of a troubled psyche. And we have the wonderful Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks trying to find his way through the minefield. Inspector Banks is a wonderful character. He is very real, and he is such an ordinary guy. That is part of his appeal. This book is set around the Christmas season in the northern part of England (Yorkshire) where Banks has taken up residence. A young woman is ... Read More
Rating:  - Start elsewhere if you want to appreciate Peter Robinson
"Past Reason Hated" is the only book I have read by Peter Robinson. I won't read another unless I'm stuck on a island and one washes up on the shore and I am out of matches.
I understand that his later works are better than his earlier works. One reviewer recommends "In a Dry Season." I can only recommend that this not be the first of his books to read. The plot is slow, the sentences are cumbersome and the characters are poorly developed, and he is not funny.
The only reason I finished ... Read More
Rating:  - "What the hell was it about the music that bothered him? Why did it have to mean something?"
With this novel in the Inspector Banks series, Robinson has taken his work to the next level. His magnificent ability to use everyday situations in his plots, to provide insights regarding the motivations of his characters, and his cleverly-crafted mysteries are complemented with a deeper look at the main characters. This last element is the one that does the trick for me and lifts this effort from very good to excellent.
Inspector Banks has to find Caroline's killer, which is not an easy task, ... Read More
Rating: - Chilling
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of thirteen previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He is the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada, and in 2002 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. As I also come from Leeds the background to his stories is something that I have experienced first hand and because of this I have a special affection for his books. However they would be first class crime fiction wherever they were based. This particular novel is one ... Read More
Rating: - An excellent piece of work
The novel just before this one in the DCI Alan Banks series, _The Hanging Valley_, was pretty lackluster, but Robinson springs back in this one with a major winner. A young woman is found murdered in her own parlor by her lesbian partner, Veronica, a classical recording playing over and over on the stereo. Caroline had been involved in a local amateur theater production of _Twelfth Night_ -- nice bit of irony there, and a plot-point as well if you pay attention -- and the director and the other cast members are ... Read More
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