All the Colors of Darkness

DCI Alan Banks is on holiday in London, frolicking (or hoping to) with the new love of his life, when his colleague, DI Annie Cabbot is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mark Hardcastle, set designer for a local theater group, is found hanging from a tree in the woods outside Eastvale. Thi......more

Author Peter Robinson and his protagonist, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, never fail to entertain or disappoint. In All the Colors of Darkness, Banks finds himself called back from holiday with his girlfriend, Sophia, to Eastvale to lend his expertise to an apparent murder-suicide investigation. Banks i......more

What can I say about this one? Obviously I love Alan Banks but this book was not up to par with the others in the series. If it’s a police procedural I am usually absorbed with the action, the crime scene crew and resulting investigation. But this time Robinson brought a spy element into the story;......more

I really enjoyed this one - and looking at amamzon.co.uk reviews, it would appear as though i was the only one! In a switch from the henning mankell novel recenyly read, we have a mystery here which is not resolved until the end. We follow banks as he progresses through the investigation. And the crim......more

I initially had mixed feelings about this, the 18th of Peter Robinson's excellent DCI Banks novels. Usually I'm gripped by Robinson's writing within a few chapters, but it took a lot longer before I really got into this one. This time Robinson paints a broader canvas than usual, & although still a po......more