This
latest paperback edition of the best-selling Inspector Banks
Novel series features British Detective Chief Inspector Alan
Banks in a case that literally hits close to home. Still recovering
from an unsolved case where his own house was burned to the
ground, and he was trapped inside until a last-minute rescue,
the last thing Banks needs right now is more stress in his
life. When he receives a panicked late-night telephone call
from his estranged younger brother, Roy, Banks pays him a
visit the next morning. Much to his surprise, Roy’s
apartment door is unlocked, his computer hard drive is missing,
and Roy is nowhere in sight.
As Banks interviews neighbors and friends, and uncovers clues
inside the apartment, his dark suspicions become increasingly
likely: Roy has been kidnapped, may be in danger, or even
worse. On the same night that Roy disappears, a beautiful
young woman meets her death on the highway. Shot in the head
for no apparent reason, the victim’s identity is gradually
revealed. An administrator at a family planning center, she
had no known enemies beyond a crazy ex-boyfriend who desperately
wants her back.
Banks’s former lover, Detective Annie Cabbot, has been
assigned the case, and as luck would have it, the two crimes
may be connected. Even with all the twists and turns in the
investigations, both cases keep returning to three main suspects:
a creepy businessman who travels the lonely highways at night,
a husky thug with a black ponytail, and a slippery international
criminal who has yet to be caught. Banks and Cabbot work frantically
to learn whether none, all, or some of the three suspects
are involved in the ever-expanding case whose victims keep
increasing.
Suspenseful, surprising, and disturbing, this novel digs deeper
and deeper into the dark side of humanity with cruel characters
who make up their own rules for getting by in life regardless
of who gets physically hurt, psychologically damaged, or killed
in the process. The central characters are well-rounded, and
even most of the minor characters are more than mere stereotypes,
with fears, desires, and their own unique motives. The story
shifts from one case to another throughout the chapters to
keep interest levels high in a teasing, yet not unpleasing,
manner.
Well-paced, cleanly written, and meticulously plotted, Strange
Affair provides another exciting installment to Peter Robinson’s
series.
Reviews
of other titles in this series
Cold
is the Grave #11
Aftermath,
#12
Close
to Home #13
Playing
Fire #14
Strange Affair #15 [audio]
[book1
] [book2
]
Piece
of My Heart #16
Friend
of the Devil #17
All the Colors of Darkness #18
Bad Boy
#19
In The Dark Places #22 [review
1] [review
2]
When The Music's Over #23 [review
1] [review
2] |