Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26

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Yorkshire crime writer and Inspector Banks creator Peter Robinson dies aged 72". The Yorkshire Post. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. In a 2020 interview with The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers, Robinson noted that mystery writing has evolved with the times — and he adapted his writing and the intrepid protagonist Alan Banks along with it.

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DCI Banks author Peter Robinson dies aged 72". BBC News. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. Reliable procedural entertainment from a pro’s pro, with an ending that guarantees more drama ahead.Sally Beamish: Andante from Viola Concerto No. 2 – The Seafarer “ by Tabea Zimmermann, Ola Rudner & Swedish Chamber Orchestra Banks doesn’t dwell on Keane’s reappearance: there’s always a new case to be solved in North Yorkshire. “The body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheely bin on the East Side Estate,” and Detective Superintendent Banks and DI Annie Cabbot are called to the crime scene. The ethnicity of the teenager bumps a random murder into something potentially more complicated. Dr Burns, the police doctor in attendance, points out to Banks that a Middle Eastern, dark-skinned victim is unusual “around these parts.” Unfortunately, I didn’t even get that. Simplistic writing, numerous sexist descriptions of female characters, unbelievable police procedure – I’m sure that the police do not divulge what they know or suspect to a potential perpetrator of the crimes they are investigating – and 1970’s style police behaviour e.g. drinking on duty at suspects houses! The Price of Love (2009), ISBN 9781848944374 (Short stories; includes an Inspector Banks novella and three Banks stories)

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The Summer that Never Was (2003), ISBN 9780333907443 (published in the United States as Close to Home) Poème de l’amour and de la mer” from Chausson: Poème de l’amour et de la mer and Symphonie Op. 20 by Véronique Gens & Orchestre National de Lille Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a PhD in English at York University. He has taught at a number of Toronto community colleges and universities and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, 1992-93. Not Safe After Dark ( Crippen & Landru, 1998 & Macmillan Publishers, 2004), ISBN 9781743032312 (Short stories; includes three Inspector Banks stories)

I don’t think I’ve been this disappointed in a book ever. I’ll just skip to the good part, which is basically the last 3-4 chapters, which is a decent detective story conclusion. Barely. I did find it OK and thankfully that meant an OK ending. However, a Goodreads 2-star rating means “It was OK” (“It” implying the whole book) and this really wasn’t. 25 bit up-and-down, granted, in the series that I hold very dear as a favourite of mine and this? As the local press seize upon an illegal immigrant angle, and the national media the story of another stabbing, the police are called to investigate a less newsworthy death: a middle-aged heroin addict found dead of an overdose in another estate, scheduled for redevelopment. A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. Robinson was best known for the long-running Inspector Banks crime fiction series, beginning with his first novel Gallows View in 1987, which won Robinson his first Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, an award he would go on to win seven times for his novels and short stories. After a couple of stronger novels in the Banks series, this one felt poorly put together, workmanlike but not especially engaging in terms of the detective work needed or carried out.. it all felt rather routine and frankly resulted in a bang average book. There's clearly an intention to publish a new novel in the Banks series every year, but the results are becoming rather inconsistent.

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And i'd agree with some of the other reviewers who have noted that Banks may be coming across as a bit of a bore... frankly he's starting to seem a bit creepy around women and tight-fisted to boot. I’m a proud American. And yet, despite being such a commoner, I adore authors from other countries as I can “visit their home country” with their descriptive writing.Artist Raymond Cabbot is in New York City, working the business side of his art, so Zelda heads to London: “Zelda knew that something was wrong the minute she entered the lobby of the unassuming building on Cambridge Circus late that Monday morning.” An officious couple, Paul Danvers and Deborah Fletcher invite Zelda into Hawkins’ empty office to interrogate her. Paul is a patronizing bastard thinks Zelda, but Deborah fills her in. I have long been a fan of DCI Banks and Peter Robinson. Banks is supremely ethical, but never arrogant, and he’s a Guardian reader to boot, as revealed in this recent installment. He works in the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. Banks formerly worked in the Met, London, but went north for a quieter life. However, judging from this series, his work life is not that quiet. Many Rivers to Cross: A DCI Banks Novel by author Peter Robinson is split between the two stories as the murders pile up for Banks and Zelda plots her revenge. Robinson is one of my favourite writers not least because of his references to music both in the title (love Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff) and throughout the narrative. But his books are also well-written, well-plotted and compelling and Many Rivers is no exception. The book ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and I am looking forward to the next installment in the series. Definitely, a high recommendation from me. Oh dear. I guess I didn't much enjoy this for a number of reasons. The series appears to be running out of ideas, with the consequence that this latest installment had a fairly weak and unengaging plot in terms of the crime at the centre of the novel, and I felt that the story was padded with a side plot that featured an unconvincingly written Moldovan woman exacting revenge on people from her past. The typical discussions of fine music, fine wine/spirits and fine food have become more like indulgences by the author than attempts at verisimilitude, and a lot of the rest was either slightly pedestrian police procedural (people walking in to rooms, a bit of dialogue attempting to be witty/revealing, people walking out of rooms) or irrelevant soap opera. Peter Robinson was an incredibly gifted writer and a lovely man, and we're all deeply saddened by his loss," said Jared Bland, outgoing publisher of McClelland & Stewart, in a statement.