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Dry Bones That Dream

The 7th novel in the number one bestselling Inspector Alan Banks crime series

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Dry Bones That Dream

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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Dry Bones That Dream is the seventh novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Wednesday's Child.

It was 2.47 a.m. when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically blasted him with a shotgun.

Clearly this is a professional hit – but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? For the police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. And who, exactly, is Robert Clavert?

The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case take yet another unexpected twist . . .

Dry Bones That Dream is followed by the eighth book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Innocent Graves. The series became the major British ITV drama DCI Banks

 Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime Banking Suspense

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Critic reviews

Robinson excels in the depiction of character . . . He is steadily ascending toward the pinnacles of crime fiction
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Don't assume you know the answer, you need to read/listen until the end. good twists to the story

Lots of twists

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This series rarely disappoints. Banks is a fully rounded character and his colleagues are also believable.

Terrific

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the story takes you on a ride that you dont want to stop. Another brillant book by Peter Robinson.

twist and turns in every chapter.

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Up to the usual standard of this series' police procedural, but the twist was telegraphed from about a third of the way in and it did get teeth-gritting waiting for the penny to drop for the characters. Interest sustained by the various strands of investigation, and generally this series is reliable. Banks himself continues to be a curious blank with no discernible character, but at least that means he doesn't have Terrible Dark Secrets and so on.

Telegraphed twist

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Boring and dated story with truly poor narration. Has put me off this series. The ’twist’ was not a suorise

Tedious with poor narration

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