Careless Love
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4.2 • 69 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
The thrilling twenty-fifth installment in Peter Robinson's #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series, in which Banks and his team find themselves investigating two suspicious deaths.
A young, local student has apparently died by suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn't own a car. Didn't even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why?
Meanwhile, a man in his sixties is found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post-mortem findings indicate he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity?
As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate, Annie's father's new partner, Zelda, comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants—and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt is on.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Det. Supt. Alan Banks has two unusual deaths to investigate early in bestseller Robinson's engrossing 25th outing for the Yorkshire policeman (after 2017's Sleeping in the Ground). A young woman with no marks of violence on her, later identified as college student Adrienne Munro, is found in an abandoned car on a country road. Adrienne is dressed up as if for a party, but she has no cell phone or purse. Meanwhile, a male in his mid-60s, later identified as wealthy banker Laurence Hadfield, appears to have died of injuries due to a fall into a gully in the middle of a moor. Oddly, he's wearing a business suit, and, like Adrienne, has no cell phone. As Banks and his capable team go to work interviewing people who knew the deceased, they wonder what could possibly link the two. A third peculiar death provides some answers. Readers expecting a host of suspects and wild plot twists will be disappointed. Those who enjoy methodical police procedurals that build to a logical, satisfying conclusion will be amply rewarded.)
Customer Reviews
Robinson could not have written this
An absolutley terrible book that shows no sign it was authored by Peter Robinson.
Interminable and irrelevant diatribes about music and poets that have no relationship to the story line are introduced for no apparent purpose than filling pages.
The actual length of plot would hardly credit a short story descriptive.
Disgraceful that it is offered at full price