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Bad Boy
by Peter Robinson
I've read maybe 6 of Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series, and with the exception of In a Dry Season, I really didn't like any of the books of his I've read. Sadly this wasn't In a Dry Season.
In this book, someone finds a gun, and "shops" a relative to ensure it's turned in Said relative's boyfriend is a bit of a Bad Boy, and is up to no good, so was she holding said gun for him or what? Into this mess steps DCI Banks, his daughter, and various armed police officers, trying to track down the aforementioned bad boy, before the proverbial dodo really hits the fan.
I really can't see why this book has had such decent reviews. the Bad Boy is just a spoiled rich kid with Daddy issues, and his main collaborator his just as bad, which left me a little underwhelmed, when it came to caring about what happened in the story, and left me feeling that the class of villains in Eastvale (where the book is mostly set), must have gone down in the last few years.
Couple this with the fact that I have read the immediate prequel to this book in the series, and I still wasn't clear what Banks was moaning about (when it came to the previous story), or why I should care, and I'm left feeling somewhat underwhelmed about this book if I'm honest
In this book, someone finds a gun, and "shops" a relative to ensure it's turned in Said relative's boyfriend is a bit of a Bad Boy, and is up to no good, so was she holding said gun for him or what? Into this mess steps DCI Banks, his daughter, and various armed police officers, trying to track down the aforementioned bad boy, before the proverbial dodo really hits the fan.
I really can't see why this book has had such decent reviews. the Bad Boy is just a spoiled rich kid with Daddy issues, and his main collaborator his just as bad, which left me a little underwhelmed, when it came to caring about what happened in the story, and left me feeling that the class of villains in Eastvale (where the book is mostly set), must have gone down in the last few years.
Couple this with the fact that I have read the immediate prequel to this book in the series, and I still wasn't clear what Banks was moaning about (when it came to the previous story), or why I should care, and I'm left feeling somewhat underwhelmed about this book if I'm honest