Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best.
A family tragedy, involving initially Chief Constable Riddle, no fan of Banks, but whose 16-year-old daughter ends up on a soft porn website, and Riddle asks Banks to go to London to retrieve her. Which he does, narrowly avoiding being seduced by her. He gets her back to Yorkshire and crime up there continues rather predictably.
The girl invites Banks out for lunch to thank him but is subsequently murdered rather brutally with a combination of strychnine and cocaine. The chief suspect is a low-grade London criminal with whom she had a fling in London, but the plot becomes far more complex.
Riddle, disgraced by what is going on, kills himself, his wife admits to Banks that she had an illegitimate child (fathered by the low-grade criminal), and it is this child who has killed her half-sister, jealous of the neglect by her birth mother. In London Banks meets up with his estranged wife Sandra, hoping for a reconciliation, but is told that she wants a divorce. But he and Annie, who have been estranged, get together again.
Brilliant and brilliantly plotted. Definitely one of the best. Get this on Amazon
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