DI Lorraine Jenson has just discovered a body by the lake at the clinic
where she is a patient recovering from a badly broken leg. When the
body is turned over by DCI Alan Banks and the crime scene doctor it is
discovered that the victim was killed by a crossbow bolt, he was also a
patient at the clinic and a DI himself.
Banks sets his team to
querying the guests at the clinic while he went to Leeds to check up on
the late DI Bill Quinn. Banks' team is surprised when a member of the
Professional Standards team, Inspector Joanna Passaro, is assigned to
work alongside them. Banks knows that she will slow down the
investigation just because of who she represents.
Banks and his
team discover what might be a migrant camp up in the dales. Within the
camp is found a body, the body of a man that might have been phoning
Quinn from a nearby pay phone. Delving deeper, it appears that there is
a people trafficking connection, brought even closer to home when one
of Banks' team find a number of deaths by cross bolt in Europe, and
related to people trafficking.
Evidence comes to light that Quinn
and the second victim were on the trail of a young woman who had gone
missing in Estonia six years earlier. Banks needs to travel there to
gather more information. Is the case of the missing girl tied to the
people trafficking? Banks heads to Estonia, but much to his chagrin,
must take Passaro along. What they discover is shocking and revealing.
I
have been a fan of author Peter Robinson ever since I picked up his
first Inspector Banks novel. Robinson is a great story teller and you
won't be disappointed with this latest novel. An excellent read.
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