My book reading is playing its usual game of jumping around a little, but having quite enjoyed slugging back the last Inspector Banks book I read, I picked up another at the weekend. In Aftermath, the crime – a very grisly one – has already been committed and the killer is fighting for his life within the first pages, so where does that leave Banks?
Well things aren’t quite that simple, and the story moves at a pace, picking up threads of plenty of contemporary and less contermporary crime stories of the time (well 2001 when this was written) – with a fictionalised Tony Martin who shot a burglar to his house as a bit of a backstory, and references to the Cleveland abuse scandals of the early nineties.
Anyway, a quick page turner, and now I’m in a dilemma. The next volume is out in paperback in September according to Amazon. But in the meantime, I could start at the beginning of the sequence. Not that I don’t have a lot to read already…