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Past Reason Hated
by Peter Robinson
In this is early Peter Robinson book a lesbian is found dead at home by her partner, and local young ruffians are breaking into local community centres. Banks is called in to solve the murder, while an underling investigates the ruffians. He has recently moved from London (in the last couple of years), so he is still feeling a bit out of water, but he approaches the case with his typical vim and vigour.
It's a standard detective book, but there are issues. First, in every series about a character, the books improve to a point, before either plateauing, or falling off. Often, the early books aren't as good (I feel), so I would suggest you read this book before the later books in the series.
Second, it would also make sense. In this book he's married, in later books he's divorced, so if you don't want have that "Wait... what?" feeling, start with the earlier books.
Thirdly, there are characters here that don't appear in later books, and others who haven't appeared on the scene yet (like Annie Howe), so if you don't want to miss the later characters just yet, start here.
Finally, this book is horribly dated. There was undoubtedly a time when the police were homophobic (like society in general), that isn't the case now. It just feels strange to read a book with this amount of low level homophobia these days. It get why it's there, but...
It's a standard detective book, but there are issues. First, in every series about a character, the books improve to a point, before either plateauing, or falling off. Often, the early books aren't as good (I feel), so I would suggest you read this book before the later books in the series.
Second, it would also make sense. In this book he's married, in later books he's divorced, so if you don't want have that "Wait... what?" feeling, start with the earlier books.
Thirdly, there are characters here that don't appear in later books, and others who haven't appeared on the scene yet (like Annie Howe), so if you don't want to miss the later characters just yet, start here.
Finally, this book is horribly dated. There was undoubtedly a time when the police were homophobic (like society in general), that isn't the case now. It just feels strange to read a book with this amount of low level homophobia these days. It get why it's there, but...