Piece of My Heart
by Peter Robinson
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Author: Peter RobinsonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0060544368
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: Excellent and thoughtful entry in a first-rate series
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been an eventful year or two for DCI Alan Banks of the North Yorkshire CID. He was burned out of his small cottage and lost everything, nearly including his life. His estranged brother was murdered, but he caught the killer. His old friend and superior, Superintendent Gristhorpe, has finally retired and been replaced by a dangerously ambitious woman. And he's been on the outs with DI Annie Cabbot, previously his lover and now his friend and colleague. But things seem to be turning around a bit for Banks. His cottage has been restored and improved, he inherited his brother's top-of-the-line sound system and music collection (music is very, very important to Banks), he may have gotten a handle on the new Superintendent, and he and Annie seem to have worked out their problems. And even his son, a rising rock musician, seems to be maturing. All of that is the background for the narratives of a pair of murder investigations that take place forty years apart -- one in the present day as Banks and his team tackle the brutal murder of a music journalist in his rented cottage, the other the stabbing of a young girl at an outdoor rock concert in 1969. The DI in charge of the earlier investigation is Stanley Chadwick, survivor of both the Burma campaign and D-Day, product of a strict Presbyterian upbringing, strait-laced and rather narrow-minded when it comes to the hippie generation, and extremely protective of his teenaged daughter. So protective, in fact, that it warps his professional judgment. The story moves back and forth, with Chadwick trying, not always successfully, to deal with changing times, and with Banks digging into the story the murdered journalist was working on, about the now-classic rock band, the Mad Hatters. Naturally, the two narratives slowly converge and the present-day crime is found to be linked to the earlier one, on multiple levels. As always in Robinson's novels, there are also several supporting subplots, this time concerning trust and betrayal, in both the past and the present. And, also as always, we follow Banks's sometimes meandering investigation as he pokes into corners, follows his intuition, tracks down details, carries out interviews, and ponders what he's learned and what it all means. The author has become very good at this, tossing out occasional bits of "what happened afterward" for the reader to think about and draw conclusions from. Another very successful book in an excellent detective series.
Summary of Piece of My Heart
1969 . . . In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a recently concluded rock festival?a beautiful young woman stabbed so savagely through the chest that a piece of her heart was sliced off.
Now . . . A freelance journalist, a stranger to the region, is savagely bludgeoned to death in a shocking act of violence with no apparent motive.
Two murders separated by four decades are investigated by two very different but equally haunted investigators?one, a casualty of war unable to come to terms with a confusing new world; the other, a rogue policeman harboring ghosts of his own. But the truth behind a grisly present-day slaying may somehow be hidden in the amplified, drug-induced fog of a notorious past, propelling Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks into the darkest shadows of the peace, love, and rock 'n' roll generation.
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