Banks Drops the Interest Rate
Advantages: A reasonable police-based yarn
Disadvantages: Lead character a little uninteresting
I thought I’d heard of most of fiction’s leading detectives, but a recent promotional offer from Bananas, an offshoot of The Book People, alerted me to the existence Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks. He’s been around since 1987, apparently, albeit confine ...
 silverstreak 16.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Gallows View - Peter Robinson
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Gallow's View
Advantages: Great introduction to the series, characters interesting, plot keeps you reading
Disadvantages: Outdated
Gallow's View is the first in Peter Robinson's Inspector Bank's series, although not the first book that I have read from them. After spotting half of the series for 20p each in the local library's book sale I decided to buy all of them and have been maki ...
cath_del 06.02.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Gallows View - Peter Robinson
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Gallows View. Good? Not on your nelly!
Advantages: Made for your kitchen sink!
Disadvantages: Oh so dated!
I'd once read a Peter Robinson - Inspector Banks novel a while ago, completely out of sequence and without any regard for the adventures that this policeman had had up until then. Having enjoyed the book more of less I felt that I should at some point do ...
etala 11.10.2006 · Read full review
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A meander through a Welsh village, with a touch of spiritualism
Advantages: interesting characters, allows an insight into workings of church
Disadvantages: billed as a thriller but not especially thrilling
Could the Welsh border be the source of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous hound? Redundant TV producer Ben Foley thinks so, and is on a mission to prove it. Having purchased a collapsing Victorian manor and failed to transform it into a profitable hotel, th ...
brokenangelkisses 30.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of The Prayer of the Night Shepherd - Phil Rickman
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A different story!
Advantages: An autobiography actually written by the subject himself
Disadvantages: Pretty crude writing, an unhealthy amount of penis references!
...Perhaps not as well written as the book I previously reviewed but with those in an interest in crime (reading rather than committing hopefully), My Manor may be equally as interesting. Charlie Richardson was no mug in the first place but years of prison ...
dangaroo 24.04.2011 · Read full review
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Review of My Manor - Charlie Richardson
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