A review by bgg616
When the Music's Over by Peter Robinson

4.0

Another satisfying Banks crime novel. Banks has been promoted to Detective Superintendent and this novel describes his first two cases. One is a cold case - accusations of rape against a celebrity in his 80's - a crime that happened nearly 50 years earlier. The second is the brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family living in squalor on a crime-ridden housing estate. Against many odds, Banks and his team conduct numerous interviews, and follow up interviews. Racial tensions between police and "Asians" ( the British term applied to people from India, Pakistan and nearby countries) who are also Muslim impede the investigation.

Banks still loves all kinds of music and comments on it frequently. He is currently single but readers may sense that will be changing. And of course, the ending is not ever neat for a Banks' novel but satisfying.