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All the Colours of Darkness: DCI Banks 18

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During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Much confusion in the ranks as the shadowy world of spies seems to have no relation to the real world.

In which, what in the face of it looks like a suicide, after the murder of a gay couple, turns into a world of paranoia and conspiracy, when it is revealed that one of the victims is a former MI6 agent. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. This one is "all the colors of darkness" not only for the mystery or the victims, but also for Banks himself. He had taken off early for the weekend, driving down to London that morning to stay with his girlfriend. While the prose for this novel is decent enough and the characters are still mostly enjoyable, the novel overall seems extremely weak and perhaps unfinished.

Despite these warnings Jane again tries to flee by hiding out in the countryside, only for this to end with several more deaths. In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams into the darkness….

The music has a lot more blues and psychedelic influence this time around, and it pays off big time. I enjoyed the whodunit and the author digs deep into Banks' psyche making him one of my favourite detectives. As the investigation proceeds, the detectives at Kings Lake Central find themselves visiting familiar places and talking to some familiar faces, while old enmities reappear in the incident room. 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.Right up until the last few pages, this book keeps a twist and, as a compulsive reader of detective fiction, I was impressed to be fooled. After a Marks and Spencer's beef Wellington washed down with a 1998 Eight Songs Shiraz, he decided to give up on the bookcase and settled down to an evening's reading (sic) Stephen Dorril's book about M16 instead, with John Garth's cello concertos playing quietly in the background. I had been hoping the aliens would insist that he leave the Solar System with them, becoming a sort of goodwill ambassador or embarking on a lecture tour or something. In the subplot, a minor police case moves along briskly with a new-in-town local gangster beaten to submission as the main case - presented as a gay murder-suicide - moves to an obvious and unsatisfying conclusion. Just occasionally you have the feeling of being personally on the edge of a story and so it was with this book.

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