Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26

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In a 2020 interview with The Next Chapter's Shelagh Rogers, Robinson noted that mystery writing has evolved with the times — and he adapted his writing and the intrepid protagonist Alan Banks along with it. Set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales, the Inspector Banks series of crime novels has been translated into 20 languages. Known as the "master of the police procedural," Robinson's other books in the series include Many Rivers to Cross, Careless Love and Sleeping in the Ground , which won the Arthur Ellis Award in 2018 in the best novel category. DCI Banks author Peter Robinson dies aged 72". BBC News. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. Finally, I HATED the way women were written in this book. Every women is physically described, then we're told how good she is at her job despite the way she looks. This doesn't seem to happen for any of the male characters. As an example on one occasion, two police officers (one a 'coltish' female with 'pre-Raphaelite red curls', walk down a school corridor and two boys cross them, obviously agog at the officers being in the school and Banks assumes it's because they're having 'highly erotic' thoughts about the female officer. Not because she's a confident and intimidating police officer? It's old-fashioned and cringeworthy, and it really cheapens the character of Banks for me.

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However, I was to be disappointed. I'm not sure if this is because it's the 26th novel in a series I have never read before, or whether the quality of his earlier books has declined as the number of 'Banks' novels has grown, but it was not what I was expecting from such a lauded series. In a parallel investigation, Nelia Melnic, known as Zelda, was hunting on her own with Phil Keene, a former nemesis of Banks. Keene had burned down the detective’s house in a previous novel. True enough,’ Banks said. ‘I was just thinking about that, myself. It’ll make identifying him either easy or bloody impossible. Either way, we’d better brace ourselves. I have a feeling this is going to be a big case.’I was looking forward to this book. I usually really like Peter Robinson's Alan Banks series but this one was a disappointment. It was full of the politics of the remainer kind. The detectives were showing their politically correct colours with ongoing sneering at any character right of the centre. I have crossed off Louise Penny and Ann Cleeves from must read list. Is this the one to follow? Police inaction on minor crime was mentioned with reliance on citizens to do their own policing. The wholesale discounting of the grooming gangs in those Northern cities mentioned was disappointing. Yorkshire crime writer and Inspector Banks creator Peter Robinson dies aged 72". The Yorkshire Post. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. This is my twenty sixth Banks novel, and I have read his stand alone novels too. Mr Robinson has moved Banks with the times and the novels are no longer Eastvale parochial affairs. They have spread to encompass London and in the most recent books, international criminal gangs. The author accomplishes this rather well. There is a main story set in Eastvale, and a sub plot involving international gangs running through and alongside the main story, and this international theme is now functioning as a DNA link between the novels. What Banks doesn’t know is that Zelda witnessed Keane talking to Mr Hawkins, her boss at the NCA. Zelda has a preternatural ability to recognize and remember faces: she’s positive in her ID. Zelda’s old friend Mati also has a horrific history of abuse and cruelty at the hands of ruthless men: she doesn’t understand Zelda’s reluctance to speak up.

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a b c Stephenson, Hannah (11 July 2018). "Crime in the blood: creator of DCI Banks comes home". The Yorkshire Post. p.15. ISSN 0963-1496.a b c d "A Statement from McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada on Peter Robinson". Penguin Random House. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022. My Mum is a great fan of Peter Robinson and I had heard very good things about his DCI Banks series, and so when I was invited to read his latest release via the Pigeonhole book club, I was very much looking forward to it. I rate Mr Robinson highly as a writer so I was astonished that he put the authenticity of two of his most important characters at risk by making them slip out of character to spout politics. Very early on one of them makes regretful remarks about Brexit and how she perceives the British to have diminished in her eyes as a result. When I read this I heard the author's voice - intrusive voice - not the character's. This was so jarring it took me a further chapter or so before she regained conviction as a character. Late in the book, as Banks is closing in on the killer, he likens one pompous character to Nigel Farage. Again, I found this to be distracting and it said "authorial voice" to me, the more so because of the theme of the first chapter authorial intrusion. I was sorry that a writer of Mr Robinson's calibre had reversed the customary practice of polishing the distracting flaws out. Allow your readers some refuge from the all pervading ennui that is Brexit, please. a b "British Canadian crime novelist Peter Robinson dead at age 72". CBC News. 7 October 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2022.

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The plots are good with mostly convincing characterisations and dialogue. The east European villains speak plausible pidgin English. Robinson was best known for the long-running Inspector Banks crime fiction series, beginning with his first novel Gallows View in 1987, which won Robinson his first Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, an award he would go on to win seven times for his novels and short stories.

Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He also published a number of other novels and short stories, as well as some poems and two articles on writing. The Price of Love (2009), ISBN 9781848944374 (Short stories; includes an Inspector Banks novella and three Banks stories) Trevor Hawkins is dead,’ she said. ‘Suspicious circumstances. We’re questioning everyone who works here.’ The discovery of the body of a young Middle Eastern boy on the East Side Estate, found in a “wheelie bin” (large garbage can), brings Banks and his detective, Gerry, a woman with a prestigious Cambridge degree, as well as his long-time partner, Annie Cabot to the estate to investigate. The boy’s identity is unknown, but eventually they determine he was part of a drug pushing ring operating out of Leeds, that he was 12-years-old and a Syrian refugee. Subsequently, is an area of abandoned decaying houses, a wheelchair-bound man in his 60’s is found dead of an overdose. The police investigation works to determine if these are related to the Leeds drug ring. a b c d e f g Napier, Jim (14 November 2012). "Peter Robinson". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada . Retrieved 7 October 2022.

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I don’t think I’ve been this disappointed in a book ever. I’ll just skip to the good part, which is basically the last 3-4 chapters, which is a decent detective story conclusion. Barely. I did find it OK and thankfully that meant an OK ending. However, a Goodreads 2-star rating means “It was OK” (“It” implying the whole book) and this really wasn’t. 25 bit up-and-down, granted, in the series that I hold very dear as a favourite of mine and this? Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called to investigate. Who is the boy, and where did he come from? Was he discarded as rubbish, or left as a warning to someone? He looks Middle Eastern, but no one on the East Side Estate has seen him before.I have long been a fan of DCI Banks and Peter Robinson. Banks is supremely ethical, but never arrogant, and he’s a Guardian reader to boot, as revealed in this recent installment. He works in the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. Banks formerly worked in the Met, London, but went north for a quieter life. However, judging from this series, his work life is not that quiet. Although 26th in a series, it is one new to me and proved a refreshing change from some encountered. (Reservations, though, about Zelda, who somehow did not seem to belong.) What particularly impressed was the determination on justice for that Syrian teen found stuffed in a bin. Those responsible will be made to pay no matter how above the law they may consider themselves. Painstaking attention to detail will uncover the truth, which may not be as expected.