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Standing in the Shadows

DCI Banks, Book 28

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Standing in the Shadows

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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The twenty-eighth book in the number one bestselling Alan Banks crime series - by the master of the police procedural.

Late November, 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realises two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has own suspicions as to what might have happened...

Late November 2019. An dig near Scotch Corner unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more recent than the Roman remains the archaeologist is looking for. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in and, as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.

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As far as last books go this one is OK but then I get the feeling that Mr Robinson did not know that this one would be his last. What disappointed me hugely was the last 4 or 5 minutes of narration. Simon Slater, who I think has always done an excellent job in this series, has a monologue about the publishers etc but does not take a minute or two to salute the passing of one of the pre eminent writers of detective fiction of the past 20 years? I know that it wasn't SS fault but it seem quite shoddy to me to treat poor old PR like this after all he has done.
Anyway, the book is OK, I would say not his best especially after the build up given in the last couple to people smuggling etc but, it is certainly readable.

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