A Necessary End, Peter Robinson
A Necessary End, Peter Robinson
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A Necessary End

Author: Peter Robinson

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/22/2010

Synopsis

A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ended with fifty arrests—and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID superintendent Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds.

Almost immediately, Burgess descends with vengeful fury upon the members of a sixties-style commune—while Banks sifts through the rich Yorkshire soil around him, turning over the earthy, unsettling secrets of seemingly placid local lives. Crossing "Dirty Dick" could cost the chief inspector his career. But the killing of a flawed Eastvale policeman is not the only murder that needs to be solved here. And if Banks doesn't unmask the true assassin, his superior's misguided obsession might well result in further bloodshed.

About Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson is an award-winning author whose 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 People magazine. He is widely known for his series of Inspector Banks novels, including In a Dry Season, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and won the Anthony Award. Peter was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, but has lived in North America for nearly twenty-five years. He now divides his time between North America and the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”Banks drove through Keighley and Haworth into open country, with Haworth Moor on his right and Oxenhope Moor on his left. Even in the bright sun of that springlike day, the landscape looked sinister and brooding. Banks found something magical about the area, with its legends of witches, mad Methodi......more

Goodreads review by Paul

“ … the thick of a political demonstration seemed the ideal cover for murder.” Chief Inspector Alan Banks, CID, recently transferred from London to Eastvale, a town in the Yorkshire Dales, is no Harry Bosch or Harry Rebus. But then Eastvale isn’t New York City, London or Edinburgh either. Alan Ba......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne

A small anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale turns into a brawl between protestors and police, and in the melee, someone stabs a police constable from neighboring Scarborough to death. Chief Detective Inspector Alan Banks immediately begins processing the 36 protestors who were arrested, interview......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer

A Necessary End: Banks and the Inevitable Conclusion This is my third outing with good man Inspector Alan Banks. I'm coming to rather like him. I've followed Banks from the beginning in Gallows View, published in 1987. To date the series strikes me as a fine ,well written police procedural told from......more

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