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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe



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A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries)

by Peter Robinson

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Publisher Comments:

A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales — a former university professor, wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted village.It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues — by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of London behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country policeman.But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces one ugly, indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic of settings.There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of this remote Yorkshire community that have already led to one death.And Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find his way to a killer before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.

Review:

"He is steadily heading towards the pinnacle of crime fiction."(--Publishers Weekly)

Review:

"Vivid...exciting...a rich cast of characters."(--Houston Post)

Synopsis:

A well-liked, respected historian/archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder--and stop a killer who's bound to kill again. From the author of "Innocent Graves."

About the Author

Peter Robinson's award-winning novels have been named a Best-Book-of-the-Year by Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page-Turner-of-the-Week by Peoplemagazine. Robinson was born and brought up in Yorkshire, England, but has lived in North America for nearly twenty-five years.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780380716456
Author:
Robinson, Peter
Publisher:
Avon Books
Author:
by Peter Robinson
Location:
New York
Subject:
Police
Subject:
England
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Series
Subject:
Mystery & detective
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Police procedural
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Subject:
Traditional british
Subject:
Yorkshire (England)
Subject:
Yorkshire
Subject:
Banks, Alan
Subject:
Police - England - Yorkshire
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Inspector Banks Mysteries (Paperback)
Series Volume:
1767-1
Publication Date:
August 1992
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
352
Dimensions:
682x417x93 36

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