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Aftermath / Peter Robinson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780380978328
- ISBN: 0380978326
- Physical Description: 389 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : M&S, c2001.
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| General Note: | "An Inspector Banks novel"--Subtitle on cover. |
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| Subject: | Banks, Alan (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Police > England > Yorkshire > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. Yorkshire (England) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | f rob (Text) | 35194001351642 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Monthly Selections - #1 September 2001
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of Yorkshire returns in a complex mystery that stretches his powers to the utmost--first, for the scope of the evil that a discovery in one cellar reveals, and, second, for the complexity of the case he oversees. A domestic disturbance call brings police to a middle-class home. The husband, who apparently has beaten the wife, kills one of the responding officers when he ventures into the cellar. More police arrive and discover two bodies in the cellar: the young cop and a 14-year-old girl, who has been systematically tortured and newly murdered. The crawl space beyond is a burial ground of young girls gone missing in the past year. The case keeps opening onto new perspectives of horror--this serial killer has an ally. This latest in Robinson's celebrated series is a very creepy, atmospheric Jekyll and Hyde suspense tale. ((Reviewed September 1, 2001))Copyright 2001 Booklist Reviews - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2001 August #2
It looks like a routine domestic call for Probationary Police Constable Janet Taylor and her partner Dennis Morrisey. But throwing a vase at his wife Lucy's head-the action that got neighbor Maggie Forrest, herself a fugitive from an abusive husband, to dial 999-is probably the least violent thing schoolteacher Terry Payne has done all night. In a homemade dungeon in Terry's basement the corpse of one woman who's just been murdered and the remains of four others make it clear that Terry is the so-called Chameleon who's been terrorizing blonde girls throughout Yorkshire. Even the likelihood of Terry's guilt, however, isn't enough to rescue Janet Taylor from the threat of criminal charges after she repels his assault on her by beating him savagely. "If this was America, I'd be a hero," she wanly tells Acting Supt. Alan Banks, who has to turn the questioning of Janet over to his sometime lover, Inspector Annie Cabbot, because he's busy wondering just how much Lucy Payne must have known about her husband's sickening second career-especially after Lucy is identified as one of the Alderthorpe Seven, children who were shockingly abused by their own parents-and figuring out just how the current round of atrocities is connected to Lucy's nightmare ten years ago.The lack of any real surprise puts Banks's 12th case a cut below In a Dry Season (1999) and Cold Is the Grave (2000), and his soap-opera romantic life seems a mite thin. But Robinson's canvas is as admirably broad and his insight into character and motive as keen as ever.Mystery Guild featured alternate selection; author tour Copyright Kirkus 2001 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2001 September #1
Robinson, author of In a Dry Season and ten other novels featuring British Inspector Alan Banks, returns again to contemporary crime in his latest Yorkshire mystery, which traces the evildoing of a serial rapist and murderer who preys on young women. No Robinson tale is ever clear-cut, however, and this one is complicated by issues of child abuse (the murderer's wife was the subject of brutal sexual victimization and abuse as a child), spousal abuse (the murderer is alleged to have terrorized his wife), and police brutality (the arresting officer hit the murderer so many times after he killed her partner that she is brought up on charges herself). For Robinson, hidden in the past is the answer to his suspicion that the murderer's wife was not only a participant in the assaults on these young women but an instigator. Meanwhile, Banks's personal life continues on its convoluted way: his ex-wife of 20-odd years is pregnant by her husband-to-be and waiting for Banks to sign the divorce papers, and his relationship with Detective Annie Cabot is complicated by the job. Some readers may wish that the inspector's personal life were less muted here; others may long for the simpler days of less violent, non-serial murder mysteries. Nonetheless, this multilayered novel puts Banks firmly in the upper echelon of British mystery writers. [Mystery Guild featured alternate.] Francine Fialkoff, "Library Journal" Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2001 August #4
Dark, darker, darkest endless shades of ebony seem to envelop Acting Det. Superintendent Alan Banks in this grim, compelling, character-driven mystery (after 2000's Cold Is the Grave). As the head of the North Yorkshire half of a two-county joint task force, Banks is helping look into the disappearances of five young girls. As the title implies, the answer comes early on in an explosive scene where the girls' grisly fate is discovered. But Banks is left with the aftermath: a cop facing possible charges for excessive force, a woman who may be a victim or may be guilty of monstrous crimes, an "extra" body and one that isn't where it ought to be. Banks also faces plenty of personal challenges as his wife, Sandra, still pressing for divorce, finds a new way to shock him, while sometime girlfriend and colleague, Annie Cabbot, seeks to change their relationship. Robinson's never tackled darker themes: child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, torture and murder. And while he never indulges in needlessly graphic descriptions, it is still horrific stuff. Introspective, thoughtful and plagued by uncertainties, Banks battles to maintain focus as the investigation plods on. As always, the author scrupulously details the police work, from the forensics to the efforts of a consultant psychologist (i.e., a profiler), who delves into a past case that may be related. A proven master of the British police procedural, Robinson should find a large audience for this gripping, psychologically astute tale. Agent, Dominick Abel. (Oct. 9) Forecast: Stronger than Cold Is the Grave, which won the Anthony and the Ellis awards, this novel stands to rack up even bigger sales, fueled by a five-city author tour and 25-city national radio campaign. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
