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DCI Alan Banks is back—and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. A respected officer convalescing at the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, is killed by a crossbow while on the facility's tranquil grounds, and the initial investigation uncovers compromising photos in his room. Soon after, a Professional Standards Inspector arrives in Eastvale and insists on working the case alongside a reluctant Banks, who's convinced a police officer shouldn't be deemed guilty without proper evidence. But the more they learn, the more likely it seems the officer wasn't all he was reputed to be, that his murder is linked to another vicious crime in Yorkshire and to a cold case—the disappearance of a nineteen-year-old English girl in Estonia six years earlier.
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August 28, 2012 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780771076480
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- ISBN: 9780771076480
- File size: 2300 KB
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- English
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November 5, 2012
The crossbow murder of Det. Insp. Bill Quinn on the grounds of St. Peter's Police Convalescence and Treatment Center outside Leeds propels Robinson's highly satisfying 20th novel featuring Det. Chief Insp. Alan Banks (after 2010's Bad Boy). Compromising photos of Quinn with a possibly underage female and rumors that he was a "bent copper" cast doubts on his integrity, and lead to Insp. Joanna Passero from Professional Standards joining the investigation. Possible links to a case that haunted Quinn, the unsolved disappearance of a young West Yorkshire woman in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier, and a second murder related to the first prompt Banks and Passero to travel to Tallinn in search of clues. Meanwhile, Det. Insp. Annie Cabbot, now recovered from injuries suffered in a previous book, provides solid help on the home front. Though not up to Robinson's best, this entry smoothly blends careful police work and astute psychological observations. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary.
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