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When the Music's Over
by Peter Robinson
I started watching the repeats of the DCI banks TV series and decided to try one of Peter Robinson's novels. This was the only one in my local library.
A police procedural which is two cases, a historic child rape by a celebrity and another involving child grooming. The cases both reflect what has been in the news in the UK in recent years. In fact Robinson leaves the reader in no doubt where he got his ideas from by constant reference to Jimmy Saville and the child grooming cases in the UK, especially Rotherham.
At 480 pages the book is quite a long read and like most of these crimes it reflects the length of time it can take to resolve.
It was a page turner and I found the relationship between Linda Palmer, the child victim in 1967 Blackpool interesting. The novel in effect becomes 3 books in one when Banks suggests to Palmer, as an aid to remembering events to write a memoir which the reader gets to see.
Linda Palmer is a well respected poet and this gives Robinson through Banks the chance to portray his love of the subject. I suppose when you have written over 20 books you're allowed to do that
A police procedural which is two cases, a historic child rape by a celebrity and another involving child grooming. The cases both reflect what has been in the news in the UK in recent years. In fact Robinson leaves the reader in no doubt where he got his ideas from by constant reference to Jimmy Saville and the child grooming cases in the UK, especially Rotherham.
At 480 pages the book is quite a long read and like most of these crimes it reflects the length of time it can take to resolve.
It was a page turner and I found the relationship between Linda Palmer, the child victim in 1967 Blackpool interesting. The novel in effect becomes 3 books in one when Banks suggests to Palmer, as an aid to remembering events to write a memoir which the reader gets to see.
Linda Palmer is a well respected poet and this gives Robinson through Banks the chance to portray his love of the subject. I suppose when you have written over 20 books you're allowed to do that