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Reading VIII-IX
VIII: Peter Robinson, Wednesday's Child (1992?)
IX: Peter Robinson, Dry Bones That Dream (1994?)
Two more Inspector Banks novels - three more to read and then a stand-alone. Of the ones I have anyway. The copyright dates seem odd on these - I suspect they are of the British publication in the mid-1990s, whereas the ones above are Canadian (or the ones Wikipedia give), but don't necessarily mesh with those on Robinson's website.
In Wednesday's Child two people pose as social workers to kidnap a young child and a corpse in found in a disused mine. It wouldn't be a crime novel if the two weren't connected, would it? I get the sense that Robinson doesn't quite trust his readers to pay attention - he reminds us who Jenny the psychologist who Banks nearly had an affair with twice in a dozen pages. But holds attention.
Dry Bones That Dream brings back Dick Burgess, the London cop from A Necessary Death as a rather dull accountant is executed. The accountant turns out to have a second, secret life in Leeds, and to be tied in with international money laundering. The gimmick is pinched from a Sherlock Holmes novel, but I didn't see it coming. The narrative has a bit of political bite, and effort at a story arc is being made; Banks's family develops.
One of the minor cops reads Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny.
IX: Peter Robinson, Dry Bones That Dream (1994?)
Two more Inspector Banks novels - three more to read and then a stand-alone. Of the ones I have anyway. The copyright dates seem odd on these - I suspect they are of the British publication in the mid-1990s, whereas the ones above are Canadian (or the ones Wikipedia give), but don't necessarily mesh with those on Robinson's website.
In Wednesday's Child two people pose as social workers to kidnap a young child and a corpse in found in a disused mine. It wouldn't be a crime novel if the two weren't connected, would it? I get the sense that Robinson doesn't quite trust his readers to pay attention - he reminds us who Jenny the psychologist who Banks nearly had an affair with twice in a dozen pages. But holds attention.
Dry Bones That Dream brings back Dick Burgess, the London cop from A Necessary Death as a rather dull accountant is executed. The accountant turns out to have a second, secret life in Leeds, and to be tied in with international money laundering. The gimmick is pinched from a Sherlock Holmes novel, but I didn't see it coming. The narrative has a bit of political bite, and effort at a story arc is being made; Banks's family develops.
One of the minor cops reads Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny.