I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have each of the other tales in the series. Naturally, they may not be exactly true to police procedure, but, they are sufficiently so to convince me. I never find myself chapters ahead and irritated by Banks' dim-wittedness, or amazed by a thought that hadn't struck me although, it has been known for me to be lead, skilfully, down a blind alley for a while!The murders are not too bloodthirstily drawn, or the solutions too far fetched. Robinson knows instinctively, just when to release information to the reader and when to allow his hero to recognise the significance. The thing that I enjoy most in these books is that I am always just half a page ahead of the detective. Details mentioned, en passant in an earlier work are enhanced, as necessary, further into the series and the group of characters all have reality.I do not want to make these books seem too much like great works of literature, they are not intended so to be.
Inspector Banks is good at his job, but don't expect him to deduce the murderer from a trace of rare grass on the victim's shoe, or to leap at the criminal and down him with a swift karate chop.Through the series of Banks books, the characters, not just Banks, but his wife, his boss, Grisethorpe, and the DC's with whom he works, all develop in a believable way. Peter Robinson does the ordinary cop very well.
Nobody wants to read about their everyday, mundane life but, for me, when Superman, or Wonder Woman turns up, the connection to the human is broken. My idea of a good fictional story is one that sets realistic people in a fantastic situation.
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