The new Inspector Banks, just published.
The wonderful opening chapter (for me); Banks' anxiety about retirement plated out against soundtracks from 'American Beauty' and 'Live Dead'.
Plot slightly typical of late Robinson novels but nonetheless pretty good - retired and disgraced college lecturer found dead, murdered it transpires by the family of upper-class gel who had an affair with a very Mick MacGaghy miner during the student support for the miner’s strike, the progeny of which is now an aspiring Tory MP.
Annie and the other policewomen (there are hardly any men left in these plots) are oddly displaced from Banks in the book, perhaps to pave the way for a budding romance with a girl who works for the upper-class lot.
Maybe becoming a little bit clichéd but still a good read.
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