Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26

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Banks finds the threads of each case seem to be connected to the other, and to the dark side of organized crime in Eastvale. His novels, especially his enduring Inspector Banks series, are the kinds of books that transcend their genre — they're crime novels, to be sure, but more than that they're human novels, anchored by an immensely humane character.

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He emigrated to Canada in 1974 and continued his academic studies in Ontario, pursuing an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor — with American author Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor — and then a PhD in English at York University.A fatal car accident that was anything but accidental has jarred loose a stash of methamphetamines and cash that’s become the center of a battle between the Sons of Freedom, Bakken County’s traditional drug sellers, and MS-13, the Salvadorian upstarts who are muscling in on their territory. Set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales, the Inspector Banks series of crime novels has been translated into 20 languages. Between 2010 to 2016, several of the Robinson-penned novels were adapted for British television, and other original stories were produced, under the series title DCI Banks. Banks doesn’t dwell on Keane’s reappearance: there’s always a new case to be solved in North Yorkshire.

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Their temperamental similarity to the Kray twins had been remarked on more than once, to the extent that in some quarters they were referred to as Reggie and Ronnie, though never to their faces. Gerry Masterson agreed and noted that Blaydon was a “high roller” gambler, but he was on a losing streak. Outside of the Banks series, Robinson also wrote novels and short stories including The Wrong Hands and Other Stories.Although Caedmon's Song is a standalone novella, it is related to Friend of the Devil, which is also related to Aftermath. Although Malden Terrace is no more immune from nativist racism than other neighborhoods, the traces of cocaine in the dead boy’s pocket hint at equally sinister connections—from low-end Howard Stokes, a diabetic heroin user found dead in his home, to high-end developer Connor Clive Blaydon, an associate of Albanian Mafia stalwart Leka Gashi who’s more recently partnered with equally dodgy Timmy and Tommy Kerrigan to build Elmet Centre, which, Blaydon piously assures Banks, will do the area no end of good.

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Peter Robinson’s fictional character Detective Superintendent Alan Banks has been the protagonist of a long series of popular crime novels, beginning with 1987’s “Gallows View. Zelda has no love for the police because corruption in the ranks affected her cruelly back in the day, but she respects Banks’s intuition and insight. Reliable procedural entertainment from a pro’s pro, with an ending that guarantees more drama ahead.Zelda knows personally of such horrors, telling Banks that there are many “men for whom human life or happiness means nothing. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. Hawkins, likely “the worse for drink,” fell asleep after he put a “pan full of oil on the burner to heat up. Banks’ investigating team consisted of Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot and Detective Constable Gerry Masterson. Banks finds the threads of each case seem to be connected to the other, and to the dark side of organised crime in Eastvale.