söndag 30 mars 2025

Standing in the Shadows

Den sista boken om kommissarie Banks. Så jag läste den bara därför. Lite spännande story, men alldeles för "snackig". Men de två sidorna om hur Banks organiserade sin ärvda skivsamling var bra! 

Late November, 1980. Student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realises two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has own suspicions as to what might have happened . . .

Late November 2019. An dig near Scotch Corner unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more recent than the Roman remains the archaeologist is looking for. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in and, as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.