After Annie Cabbot’s initially inconclusive visit to Hardcastle’s colleagues at the Eastvale Theatre, an obvious motive for suicide surfaces with the discovery of Hardcastle’s lover, retired civil servant Laurence Silbert, clubbed to death in his posh digs. By no means do I limit myself to those categories, and seek out interesting books in all fields at every opportunity. So do read it, if you have not, and follow the evolving tale of DI Banks and his staff in Yorkshire policing. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. 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.

Next, she left a message for Detective Superintendent Catherine Gervaise, who was in a meeting at County HQ in Northallerton. A gay man from the local theatre scene is found hanging from a tree which is immediately treated as a inexplicably tragic suicide. The body hanging from a tree in a peaceful wood appears to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot to be a suicide. DCI Banks has a new lady friend named Sophia, one who is considerably younger, and he is spending all his time in London with her. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.This is some great fuzzy music and if you are into underground heavy psych, definitely pick this one up. The scent of wild garlic filled the air, clusters of midges hovered over the water, and on the other side the meadows were full of buttercups, pignut and cranesbill. Margaret's married for a start, and Walter's encounter with her husband, Billy, leaves him black and blue. The strange man appears in front of her and reveals that her mother was part of the sect and that she was murdered because she wanted to leave.

Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But Banks soon discovers that Silbert was an allegedly retired spy, and he begins to wonder if all is as it appears. AUDIO: The reading would have been quite adequate except for some insane -- literally insane -- music stuck in at odd moments. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. There is a sub plot of some knife crime which was used as a device to allow banks and his team to carry on with the investigation of the murder/homicide after being warned off by superior powers, so I can understand why Robinson included it.But when a local teenager runs away, Harry finds himself pulled into an investigation much worse than anyone could have ever expected. I will say now that I could have added a whole load more quotations to support my arguments but, to be honest, I have already spent a lot longer on this than the book is worth. Set designer Mark Hardcastle’s hanging in Hindswell Woods certainly looks like a suicide, his only wounds from a noose tied by someone left-handed, like Hardcastle himself. I have always enjoyed Robinson's Inspector Banks series but this one made me wonder why I ever liked or sympathized w/ the hero. This book also contains plenty of listening recommendations for the discriminating jazz and classical music fan.

Despite these warnings Jane again tries to flee by hiding out in the countryside, only for this to end with several more deaths. His Civil Service pay as a member of the Security Services wouldn't have made it possible, although spies have been known to feather their own nests out of the money which doesn't get accounted for on their operations. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. I still have thousands of books to put online, mainly science fiction paperbacks, pulps and digests, so please visit me again from time to time to see if I have something of interest, or send me your wants.But as similarities between the two cases grow, could it be that Jack caught the wrong man all those years ago? It's the year 1986, and The Universal Transmitting Company, after several false starts, is finally having the grand opening of its teleporter business.

It includes a guide so that you can follow this country walk that Banks takes in the book (but of course! It also portrays the intelligence services of Britain as having no intelligence at all, so if you're the type who would get a big chuckle out of that, you might find that entertaining all by itself.

DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. If it’s a police procedural I am usually absorbed with the action, the crime scene crew and resulting investigation. It’s not an easy read in so much as there’s some graphic descriptions of events and the narrative is very sad. This one is "all the colors of darkness" not only for the mystery or the victims, but also for Banks himself.