Investigating the murder of a mob-tied developer and the possibly related rape of a young woman, DCI Alan Banks finds himself in the crosshairs of the Albanian Mafia. Complicated, unexpected and startling, the story is all that, but Robinson brings all the disparate parts together so cleverly that the result on finishing the novel is a satisfaction that all readers want at the end of a good book. Robinson pulls the reader in with deft characterizations, powerfully understated action scenes, and strong locales . Not Dark Yet is almost a story of two different investigations which eventually involve the same thing.

There's a clear link to the notoriously vicious Albanian mafia, men who left the country suspiciously soon after the death. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. Not Dark Yet zones in on Zelda, a kidnapped girl who escaped the bonds of prostitution some years ago and now lives quietly in Yorkshire. At the center of the investigation is Zelda, a sex trade survivor on whom Yorkshire's Banks developed a major crush in Many Rivers To Cross (2019)—an attraction he can't act on since she's the romantic partner of one of his best friends.Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U. But a cloud of suspicion hangs over Zelda—real name Nelia Melnic—following the unsolved murder of a Croatian trafficker who violated her and her possible involvement in another killing. The thrilling 25th instalment in Peter Robinson's number one best-selling Banks series, in which Banks and his team find themselves with two suspicious deaths. Peter Robinson's DCI Banks is a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson ( Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe ( The Bill, Murphy's Law) as DI Annie Cabbot.

And she was the central character in If It Bleeds, a novella in the 2020 collection of the same name. Then they find a cache of spy-cam videos hidden in the house - and Annie and Gerry's investigation pivots to the rape of a young girl that could cast the murders in an entirely different light. After delving into a forbidden love affair, the beautiful Caroline is brutally stabbed to death just three days before Christmas. Many rivers to cross and the last one is Not Dark Yet in 2020 are the part of the Inspector Bank Series.But Robinson pulls the reader in with deft characterizations, powerfully understated action scenes, and strong locales—while leaving space for this amateur musicologist's usual legion of song and album references. A super recognizer—able to recognize faces significantly better than most people—Zelda is determined to bring the men who abused her to justice. But the biggest problem is that this narrative is framed as a mystery without delivering the pleasures of a mystery.