Aftermath (The Inspector Banks series)

Neil Pearson

ISBN 10: 140509091X / ISBN 13: 9781405090919

Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2007

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35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. But it is about to become infamous .For when Police Constables Janet Taylor and Dennis Morrisey are sent to the house following a report of a domestic disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A scene which leaves one of them dead and the other fighting for her life and career Inspector Alan Banks, currently Acting Superintendent, has been leading the hunt for a serial killer who has so far abducted five young women in the Yorkshire area. Banks is immediately called to The Hill - where, it seems, his identity has finally and gruesomely been revealed. But the capture of the serial killer is only the beginning of a shocking investigation that will test everyone to the absolute limit . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aftermath (The Inspector Banks series)
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140509091X
• ISBN 13: 9781405090919
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 181 grams

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Synopsis

Unabridged CD Audiobook 14 CDs / 16.5 hours long... Note this publisher does not seal nor plastic wrap new audiobooks... it is published in a binder with a professional cover.

Review

Penzler Pick, October 2001: The mystery novels of Peter Robinson (Aftermath is his 12th) are of increasing power and intensified intelligence. It's a dirty little secret of the crime-fiction genre that many of its writers simply spin their wheels, repeating over and over those old tricks which always have worked for them. They coast on past successes and repeat the formula hoping, if not assuming, that their fans won't notice.

Writers like Robinson, however, actually seem to grow in front of our eyes, delivering books of greater complexity each time. His previous two books, Cold Is the Grave and In a Dry Season, were novels of character and novels of crime, equally, and now Aftermath is here to reward his fans and new readers alike.

Like recent books by fellow English writers Reginald Hill, Val McDermid, and Stephen Booth, Aftermath centers upon a grim case in which attractive young girls have disappeared, victims of a cunning psychotic killer whose identity is well concealed behind a façade of respectability. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Yorkshire Police is in charge of the case, but he's also got unavoidable personal distractions. His separated wife, Sandra, is pregnant by her lover, Sean, and wanting the divorce he's been dragging his heels over.

There is nothing cozy about the kind of English mysteries written by Peter Robinson, even if they do take place where picturesque rural villages make up the landscape. He's not afraid of gore or deviance, of violence, or of any of the baser emotions, and it's a raw old world behind the hedgerows and cottage walls. If Aftermath is your first taste of his tough-tender sensibility, it won't be surprising if you soon are hooked on the work of one of today's most accomplished practitioners of detective fiction. --Otto Penzler