The 18th DCI Banks novel, All the Colours of Darkness is an enjoyable gripping read but fans of the series may feel this isn’t Robinson’s finest. Starting with what looks like the suicide of the set designer for a local production of Othello the plot draws parallels with the play and indeed it’s whilst watching the performance that Banks realises how to solve the mystery. But it also leads him deep into the murky (and not here entirely credible) world of MI5 and MI6 who will seemingly stop at nothing to cover certain things up. An interesting foray into spy thriller for Robinson’s police procedural but ultimately the extra complications this adds don’t lead to as satisfying a read as usual.
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A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annie's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe.
All the Colours of Darkness The 18th DCI Banks Mystery features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
All the Colours of Darkness The 18th DCI Banks Mystery is available in Paperback
All the Colours of Darkness The 18th DCI Banks Mystery was written by Peter Robinson and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
All the Colours of Darkness The 18th DCI Banks Mystery has 507 pages
Yes it is part of Inspector Banks Novels series
