Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26

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A skinny young boy is found dead – his body carelessly stuffed into wheelie bin. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was he discarded as rubbish, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the East Side Estate has seen him before. a b Cogdill, Oline H. (20 February 2005). "Two Writers Modernized British Crime Fiction". Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale. p.23. ProQuest 389831798 . Retrieved 7 October 2022– via ProQuest. Banks thought of Zelda. ‘I know someone who might be able to help you with any pictures you haven’t identified yet. She knows the sex traffic world inside out, and she’s a super-recognizer.’ However, I was to be disappointed. I'm not sure if this is because it's the 26th novel in a series I have never read before, or whether the quality of his earlier books has declined as the number of 'Banks' novels has grown, but it was not what I was expecting from such a lauded series. Set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales, the Inspector Banks series of crime novels has been translated into 20 languages. Known as the "master of the police procedural," Robinson's other books in the series include Many Rivers to Cross, Careless Love and Sleeping in the Ground , which won the Arthur Ellis Award in 2018 in the best novel category.

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Banks finds the threads of each case seem to be connected to the other, and to the dark side of organised crime in Eastvale. Does another thread link to his friend Zelda, who is facing her own dark side? The truth may be more complex – or much simpler – than it seems… Yorkshire crime writer and Inspector Banks creator Peter Robinson dies aged 72". The Yorkshire Post. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. 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.The Next Chapter 14:48 Peter Robinson on Many Rivers to Cross Featured VideoPeter Robinson, who has been called "the master of police procedurals" on his latest Inspector Banks mystery, Many Rivers to Cross. 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! 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.

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Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.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 At the same time, Zelda, girlfriend of Annie Cabbot’s father Ray is conducting her own investigation in London. In Careless Love, Zelda came across as a somewhat annoying cliché. However, in this novel, as we learn more about her personal history, she becomes a much more interesting and sympathetic character. I am a big fan of the Banks series mostly due to witty dialogues, interesting cases and detailed descriptions of the police procedural. The writing in this one has shifted in a way that makes me uncomfortable and I really hope that Peter Robinson reads his readers’ comments and continues to deliver an intelligent and thought-provoking books instead of confusing them with sexist messages. If not, the 27th Inspector Banks book will definitely be my last.

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a b "Peter Robinson". inspectorbanks.com. Peter Robinson. Archived from the original on 13 September 2015 . Retrieved 24 August 2015. 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. Although Caedmon's Song is a standalone novella, it is related to Friend of the Devil, which is also related to Aftermath.

DCI Banks author Peter Robinson dies aged 72". BBC News. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. The discovery of the body of a young Middle Eastern boy on the East Side Estate, found in a “wheelie bin” (large garbage can), brings Banks and his detective, Gerry, a woman with a prestigious Cambridge degree, as well as his long-time partner, Annie Cabot to the estate to investigate. The boy’s identity is unknown, but eventually they determine he was part of a drug pushing ring operating out of Leeds, that he was 12-years-old and a Syrian refugee. Subsequently, is an area of abandoned decaying houses, a wheelchair-bound man in his 60’s is found dead of an overdose. The police investigation works to determine if these are related to the Leeds drug ring. a b c d e Sloniowski, Jeannette; Rose, Marilyn, eds. (25 March 2014). Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 9781554589289. 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. a b "British Canadian crime novelist Peter Robinson dead at age 72". CBC News. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022.