Careless Love

Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and DS Winsome Jackman are attending the scene of an automobile accident, which had happened a few days earlier.  However, there is now the body of a young woman sitting in the driver’s seat.  How had she come to be there well after the police had initially been on the scene?

It doesn’t take long to identify the body.  She was a nineteen year old student at the local college.  The autopsy reveals that she had died from an overdose of sleeping pills, but had not died at the scene where she was found.  Suicide or was she killed?

A few days later DI Annie Cabbot and DC Gerry Masterson are attending an accident on Tetchley Moor where a man has died from an apparent fall.  The question is, why would a man wearing a suit and brogues have been out walking on the moor?

From Cabbot’s father’s partner, they get an idea of who might be involved.  Zelda is someone who easily recognises faces and she puts Banks and Cabbot on a trail, which could possibly lead to the person involved.  However, they also learn that there is a criminal gang involved in sex trafficking.  It turns out that the man involved is someone who both Banks and Cabbot had dealt with in the past.

When the male victim is identified, the police are sure that they have a crime on their hands.  Is it connected to the case of the young woman?  Both deaths are under suspicious circumstances.  A week later, Banks meets with his old friend DCI Ken Blackstone from West Yorkshire about another suspicious death of a young female student.  On her phone is the name of the first victim, but the number isn’t hers.

However, as the investigation progresses, tenable links are discovered.  Those links are meshed together by author Peter Robinson to create a iron clad case against the criminal behind the killing.  Robinson has written another of his classic whodunnits, and in closing the novel gives a hint of what is to come in the next novel.