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| Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: HarperLuxe
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Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 859571
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Edition: Lgr
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Pages: 624
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0061367028
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061367021
ASIN: 0061367028
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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 Great read as usual for Peter Robinson May 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thouroughly enjoyed this book. Characters always complex and interesting. Story great--intertwined with a previous story.
This Series Doesn't Disappoint! May 4, 2008
I've read all of Peter Robinson's books and Friend of the Devil does not disappoint. I'm a big fan of most English mysteries and CI Alan Banks is one of my favorite protagonists. I, too, tired a bit of the many music mentions, but it does not affect the story line. I seldom rehash the plot of books I review since that has been done several times, but I will say I'm already looking forward to the next installment of CI Banks.
 Not the Best April 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an admiring reader of all the Banks' novels I have difficulty writing a somewhat negative review of Friend of the Devil. The plot is just too overloaded with characters whose names begin to blend into confusion. I found myself saying "Now I've run across this character already but who is he again?" and I actually kept a log of who's who. What makes it worse is that the author gives names to ancillary characters who are not important to the plot, people for whom "lab assistant" would have been enough. It's almost as if including a large number of characters is a substitute for an intriguing plot. I hope Robinson's next Banks novel will have fewer characters and a more suspenseful plot.
Aftermath of Robinson's 2001 Alan Banks Novel AFTERMATH April 27, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've read all of Peter Robinson's excellently written series of novels featuring Yorkshire detective Alan Banks and highly anticipated this latest installment. For whatever reason I didn't find this volume as interesting as most of the others. The plotting is good and Robinson has provided Banks and his fellow detective (and ex lover) Annie two intriguing cases. Annie handles the death of a paraplegic woman in her late 20's who was checked out of her nursing home by an unknown person and found with her throat cut on a beach looking out to sea. Banks is in charge of the murder of a pretty young college student found dead after a drunken Saturday night. The plot twists several times with some genuine surprises before all is concluded and one of the murders will have direct ties to the serial killer story told in the 2001 novel AFTERMATH.
As with all Robinson's novels lots of details from what music loving Banks has in his CD player to the menus at the pubs where the detectives order lunch are provided. Though I generally appreciate such touches in FRIEND OF THE DEVIL all this detail begins to seem like tedious filler. Like another Amazon reviewer I've never been fond of the character of Annie and she is featured almost as much as Banks in the novel (there is a subplot about her being stalked by a young man half her age) so that may have contributed to me not being as taken with this novel as the others in this series. Still, for fans of British suspense novels that are definitely not cozy, Peter Robinson writes among the best in the genre.
A Chief Inspector Banks Mystery April 15, 2008
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of thirteen previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He is the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada, and in 2002 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. As I also come from Leeds the background to his stories is something that I have experienced first hand and because of this I have a special affection for his books. However they would be first class crime fiction wherever they were based. This book is the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks novels.
On a cliff overlooking the North Sea, a woman in a wheelchair stares with unseeing eyes out at the waves. looking at something she will never see again because she is dead. She has been murdered. Miles away in a storeroom in Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman lies still on a heap of scraps of leather. She has also been murdered. The bodies of the two women are discovered at about the same time that DI Annie Cabbot, on secondment to the Eastern Area force, wakes up with a severe hangover in the bed of a young man she barely recognizes . . .
Peter Robinson weaves another intricate plot, as only he can. If I am not mistaken this is number 17 in the Chief Inspector Banks series and they have all been excellent reading. The author's writing style makes for easy reading and his characters, particularly his lead character are well established and almost seem like old friends.
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