Inspector Alan Banks and his team are working two cases. The first is a skeleton that was found by an archeologist who was digging for Roman ruins but found something much more recent. The body is that of a man in his late fifties to mid sixties with no identification but evidence of expensive clothes, buried probably five to ten years. The other case is a college woman who died forty years before back in the time and location of the Yorkshire Ripper. Due to all the activity of that case, the death of Alice went unsolved and listening to her friends, barely investigated.
The team is the same characters but a new detective has been assigned. He is a young man, eager to learn and probably to be fast tracked for promotion. Winsome has just returned after having a baby and Gerry is rapidly becoming one of the main individuals that Banks looks to. DCI Annie Cabbot is on leave after the death of her father so she can close out his estate. When it starts to look like the cases may be related, it throws everyone for a loop. Can they solve both cases?
This is the last DCI Alan Banks' book in the series, number twenty-eight. What a wonderful 2024 I had, going back and reading all the books in this series. The reader gets an inside look into Banks's life throughout the years as he just comes to Eastdale, through the years of his marriage and children at home, to his aging but refusal to retire. I'm not sure if there would have been more, as Robinson has introduced a new character in the young detective and the other characters's stories are ongoing. This is a marvelous series and the reader couldn't do much better in police procedural mysteries than this work. This book is recommended for mystery readers.
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