this installment is a well-written, thought-provoking continuation of our relationship with characters who inhabit the same world of darkness, accident and concern that we all do. I am a longtime collector and accumulator of good books in my fields of interest, mainly science fiction and fantasy, vintage paperbacks, early Canadian paperbacks, and pulp magazines. I'v read all the books in Robinson's Banks series, and while they are all intelligent, engaging and much better than the run of the mill detective stories, the series has had its ups and downs before.

A week's holiday in a luxurious hotel is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs.But in this now-foreign country, whose language and customs he no longer understands, Reyna is also drawn into a rare Faroese murder case.

finds the Yorkshire copper trying to unravel a murder-suicide with potential ties to national security. Annie Cabbot, as usual, is drawn in by the charisma of her boss, and puts her career, and her life, on the line. New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson delivers a gripping novel of jealousy, betrayal, envy, ambition, greed, lust, revengeâall the colors of darkness that lead inevitably to murder. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier.I will say we have a lot of science fiction, and a lot of mysteries, a lot of them from certain authors. Each time the producers assaulted me with this twanging slop, it utterly shattered everything the author and narrator had built up.