Not Dark Yet
A DCI Banks Novel

In my review of the last book in this series, Many Rivers to Cross, I complained about the fact that the series seems to have strayed significantly from the early books in the series which were leaner and more tightly focused on a particular crime, with the protagonist, DCI Alan Banks, always at the......more

It's hard to believe that this is the 27th novel featuring detective Alan Banks, but it really is! Thankfully this one is an improvement on the previous weak entry (Many Rivers To Cross) & has a much stronger plot. I still feel that stretching the story of Banks' friend Zelda over three books has bee......more

It has a rather complicated plot. When you take into consideration that the author has inserted many passages into an otherwise interesting storyline that describes scenery, meals, and musical selections, although still "interesting"...they seemed to be tedious and unnecessarily. The usual character......more

Crooked property developer Connor Blaydon and his butler are found murdered at the former’s Eastvale mansion. They are known to have links to the Albanian mafia but the discovery of spy-cam videos depicting a rape indicate the motive needn’t be simply a falling out of thieves. Meanwhile, Ray Cabbot’s......more

I may be assuming too much, but NOT DARK YET seems to be the run-up to the conclusion of Peter Robinson’s series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Eastvale, Yorkshire police force. Robinson has depicted Banks’ aging naturally (for the most part), so this latest installment finds......more