All the Colours of Darkness All the Colours of Darkness
Inspector Banks Mystery Series

All the Colours of Darkness

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Publisher Description

The eagerly awaited new novel from Canada’s top crime-fiction writer.

It’s the May half-term school holiday, and the first warm day of the year has drawn a few children to the River Swain for a swim. When one boy chases another off the path that runs alongside Hindswell Woods, a glimpse of orange through the trees tempts them into the shadows. Moments later, their high spirits vanish in an instant, for there, to their shock (and ghoulish fascination), they find a man in a brightly coloured shirt hanging from a branch by a rope around his neck. Alan Banks is in London with his new girlfriend when news of the kids’ ghastly discovery reaches the police in Eastvale, so the case falls to Annie Cabbot. And she’s mystified. Why would a successful set and costume designer, with a well-reviewed production of Othello currently playing, be in such despair that he would take his own life?

In All the Colours of Darkness, Peter Robinson has written an exceptionally gripping and intricately plotted story that delivers hard truths about jealousy and betrayal — and of the insidious, corrosive power of secrets. Once more, Robinson proves that he is one of the finest crime-fiction writers in the world.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2008
September 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
360
Pages
PUBLISHER
McClelland & Stewart
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
7.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Geoffrey 1939 ,

All The colours of Darkness

I enjoyed reading this book until I got to the last two pages. I generally like Robinson's Inspector Banks mysteries but this one fell flat at the end. It was as though the author was late for an important date so he needed to wrap things up quickly. As a result we had a bazaar death in the most contrived of circumstances while other lines of the story, hitherto pursued in considerable detail, were simply left hanging. I felt cheated.

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