BAD BOY

Peter Robinson. Bad Boy. McC&S, 2010.

A mother turns in a handgun to police and the world goes awry. Tracy Banks runs off with the bad boy and then becomes his hostage. Annie gets shot. Banks gets back from USA, jet-lagged. 

This is my 6th Robinson title in 3 years. Even move than Rebus (Rankin) or Gamache (Penny).

WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER

Peter Robinson. WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER. M&S, 2016. 

Banks has been promoted. His first two cases involve sexual abuse--one historic, from 1967, and one involving a grooming ring of underage girls. 

CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION

Peter Robinson. CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION. Hodder, 2013.

I think my favourite D.C.I. Banks story yet. The body of a disgraced university professor is found on the tracks beneath a bridge, with an envelope containing 5K pounds in its pocket. Banks is warned off pursuing a line of inquiry which involves a local lady. 

NO CURE FOR LOVE

Peter Robinson, No Cure For Love. Viking, 1995.

Set mostly in LA and the victim's home in Santa Monica, with a Christmas holiday to Yorkshire and a police investigation in San Francisco, NO CURE FOR LOVE departs Canadian writer Peter Robinson's Yorkshire crime series featuring Inspector Banks. I'm a great fan, and of the television versions, with the Inspector played by former Ballykissangel priest Stephen Tompkinson. No Cure is a fairly routine stalker story, escalating letters to fragile actor Sarah Broughton (aka Sally Bolton), gifts of bodies, alternating points of view between victim, detective, and suspect, warped and delusional extras. A satisfying twist.

Abattoir Blues

Peter Robinson. Abattoir Blues: An Inspector Banks Novel. McClelland & Stewart, 2014.

I am a great fan of mystery crime fiction as the many listings for Rebus and Gamache testify. Inspector Banks too, by Canadian writer Peter Robinson, yet always set in or near Yorkshire, is another favourite. I especially enjoy the television adaptations, the actor who plays Banks. (Sorry I cannot remember his name but he used to play a priest in Ballykissangel.)
In Abattoir Blues, the plot, instigated by the theft of an expensive tractor, leads to a missing person, and an accident on a lonely mountain road. Who knew there were caves and blizzards in Yorkshire?