Bad Boy

Peter Robinson's DCI Alan Banks is on holiday in the United States when this thriller begins.  His daughter's best friend is dating a "Bad Boy".  Tracy actually fancies him, too, but knows her father wouldn't approve.  Erin, her best friend, has a row with the bad boy, and takes his gun when she departs for home.  Her mother discovers the gun.  This sets in motion the action in the novel.

Bad Boy Jaff decides to run when Tracy tells him what happens.  He takes Tracy with him, she thinking that it will be a fun adventure.  It turns out otherwise when she takes him to her father's empty cottage.

Annie Cabbot, Alan's friend and colleague has taken on the responsibility of checking on his cottage and watering the plants.  She discovers Tracy there and is suspicious; Jaff shoots her then runs with Tracy, who is now a hostage of his.

Banks comes home from the U. S. A., not knowing anything about the events.  The ensuing days will turn deadly.

Robinson has once again written an excellent thriller.  A book hard to put down.