All the Colours of Darkness: DCI Banks 18

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After Annie Cabbot’s initially inconclusive visit to Hardcastle’s colleagues at the Eastvale Theatre, an obvious motive for suicide surfaces with the discovery of Hardcastle’s lover, retired civil servant Laurence Silbert, clubbed to death in his posh digs. Although Chris finds Kilnsgate charming, something about the house disturbs him, a vague sensation that the long-empty rooms have been waiting for him - feelings made ever stronger when he learns that the house was the scene of a murder. The tree was an old oak with a gnarled, thick trunk and knotty branches, and it stood alone in a small copse. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before.

A rotting corpse in the Yorkshire Dales brings Chief Inspector Alan Banks to the insular village of Swainshead in the latest of Robinson's ( Gallows View ) justly acclaimed series of procedurals. Closer by, Annie was aware of the officer panting behind her after their trot up the hill, and of the lightest of breezes soughing through leaves too fresh and moist to rustle. Well-preserved in the peat, Isla Matheson—missing for the better part of two decades—is revealed to a shocked island community. It also means that reading his books and meeting a familar character becomes like catching up with an old friend.

It goes on and on and on about how rooms look (that have absolutely zero to do with the story at any point), what he is eating, if his fork has a stain on it left from the dishwasher and so on. It was a beautiful day in the Yorkshire Dales and some children were playing in and around the river. Occult rituals, parasites, paranormal encounters and cold hard revenge are just a few themes to be expected. It's only matched in this movie by the very creepy and bizarre opening dream sequence which includes things like a murdered pregnant woman and a hideous old crone dressed like a child's doll.

When the Universal Transmitting Company finally perfected a matter transmitter capable of sending a person instantly from terminals scattered throughout the United States to any major city in foreign countries, it seemed like man's ultimate conquest of time.I enjoyed this book but can't say that it is up to par with the other Inspector Banks novels I've read to date.