Standing in the Shadows: The last novel in the number one bestselling Alan Banks crime series

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If Standing in the Shadows is your first DCI Banks mystery, you can take solace in reading the twenty-seven police procedurals that come before Standing in the Shadows . Within this literary tapestry, suspense and intrigue are woven deftly, an enchanting blend that transcends mundane boundaries. The solution to the mystery, while not completely unexpected, still managed to surprise me in many of its details. This is the 28th entry in the DCI Banks series and is filled with everything you would expect from this outstanding series. In 2000 he made a step-change with the 10th Banks novel, In a Dry Season, which had a more complex (and haunting) plot, set around secrets long hidden in a village flooded to create a reservoir and revealed when the reservoir dries up.

There were several victims here, and some criminals, but some criminals seemed less guilty than others. An enigmatic choice, initially perplexing, it beckons the reader to decipher its tantalizingly concealed significance. Characters are luminous conduits through which the narrative unfurls, bursting forth vividly under Robinson’s hand.To complicate matters, the Yorkshire Ripper has recently been active in the area, and the police are devoting most of their resources to tracking him own.

Reading this novel is bittersweet, like the affectionate and protracted goodbye of a very dear friend. He described in one interview how he spent the lively summer of 1965 “with his ear glued to his transistor radio and his eyes on the passing girls”.Robinson’s chapters bear the weight of years, spanning the period from November 1980 to December 2019. Harold Gillespie, who owned the site of Grace Hutchinson’s discovery at the time of the burial, naturally professes to know nothing about the dead man and points out that he would hardly have buried a man he killed on his own property. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy , external and privacy policy , external before accepting.