in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. Robinson obviously has larger issues he wants to address in this book, but in doing so, I think he has written a book that falls short of the standards he set earlier in the series, and I hope that he will allow Banks and Cabbot to get back into their usual routines ASAP. Owen's always been a little different, and before long others in the community are baying for his blood.

can't get along, how can humans be expected to get along with the countless far more different alien civilizations they will encounter beyond the Solar System? Audie Award winner Simon Prebble brings his perfect dark British accent to this tale of multiple murder, love gone wrong, and wit. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role. I have read all of the books in this series (this being the 18th), and while I enjoyed parts of it, I felt increasingly dissatisfied as book progressed.When one boy chases another off the path that runs alongside Hipswell Woods, a glimpse of orange through the trees tempts them deeper into the shadows.

DI Annie Cabbot's investigation is compliocated by the fact that her boss DCI Alan Banks is having a weekend in London with his girlfriend, and that the Chief Constable, a friend of Silbert's, wants unsavoury details hushed up. At first it seems like a murder followed by suicide perhaps sparked by sexual jealousy but neither Banks nor DI Annie Cabbot are convinced that this is the whole story and some information from the murdered man's mother leads Banks to think there could be more wide ranging ramifications to the case. A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.

The Security Services will be interested when one of their own – even if nominally retired – is murdered. Because Yorkshire is Banks' home base, it makes for a dramatic contrast between the innate picturesque beauty of the county and the tough underbelly of the people who live on the housing estates outside the tourist towns, many struggling with the high crime rate and inclement weather. It’s not an easy read in so much as there’s some graphic descriptions of events and the narrative is very sad.