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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780380794768
ISBN: 0380794764
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 1998
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: December 01, 1998
Sales Rank: 173073
Studio: Avon
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Hatred and murder breed in dark places ...
In the long shadows of an alley a young man is murdered, savagely kicked and beaten to death by assailant or assailants unknown. It is a crime shocking in its raw brutality, and its shattering repercussions will be felt throughout a small provincial community on the edge -- because the victim was far from innocent, a youth whose sordid secret life was a tangle of terrifying contradictions and virulent racial hatred. And now a dedicated policeman beset by his own tormenting demons must follow the leads into the rankest pits of man's inhumanity to man -- to catch a killer before his village explodes.
Amazon.com Review:
There's a deliberate lack of excessive angst and glamour in Peter Robinson's books about Inspector Alan Banks and his fellow Yorkshire coppers, so first-time readers might think them bland. But under the books' placid surfaces, whole worlds of crime and justice are being worked out. In this ninth book in his increasingly popular series, Robinson gives Banks some serious problems of a personal and professional nature: a neglected wife and a ruthlessly ambitious superior. He also drops Banks into a frighteningly realistic neo-Nazi group called the Albion League, whose activities include drug dealing and murder. Other books in the series available in paperback include Innocent Graves, Final Account, Gallow's View, and Hanging Valley.
Average Rating: 
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This is far from being a favorite among british detective novels. Too much space devoted to side plots, not enough of the whodunnit quality. Definitely not is the same class with Christie, Sayers, Dickson Carr, Elizabeth George,Ruth Rendell, and such.
Ray
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Peter Robinson always writes a fine novel: good pacing, well-developed characters, a plot which moves steadily and capably toward its denouement. And this one is no exception although the ending was, in my estimation, disappointing. But up until that point, Robinson lays out for us a feast -- or at least a nice lunch. He takes his characters, especially Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, through no small amount of emotional travail, which gives the book added poignancy. But the ending was ... Read More
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Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of a number of previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He is the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada, and in 2002 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. As I also come from Leeds the background to his stories is something that I have experienced first hand and because of this I have a special affection for his books. However they would be first class crime fiction wherever they were based.
Having ... Read More
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It started slow but eventually picked up speed. DCI Alan Banks and DC Susan Gray are mired what seems to be a racially motivated murder. The brutally beaten victim is a member of a neo-Nazi group and three Pakistanis had an altercation with the victim in the local pub before he died. As Banks and Gray explore the neo-Nazi group in Eastvale and Leeds, their social lives take divergent paths. While Banks and his wife are growing apart, ultimately leading to separation, Susan Gray is starting to date again. ... Read More
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A young man is beaten to death in an alleyway at night. The plot thickens when his identity is discovered: Jason Fox, a leading light of the Albion League, a thoroughly unpleasant extreme right racist fringe group. As DCI Banks and DC Susan Gay piece the details of Fox's nasty story together, their lives complicate in other ways. Susan is embarking on a relationship with Gavin, a colleague from regional HQ. Meanwhile the state of Banks' marriage is going from bad to worse as is his relationship with his boss ... Read More
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