Cheryl R. (Spuddie) - , reviewed on 7/29/2007 + 412 more book reviews

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#3 Inspector Alan Banks police procedural in which a policeman is killed during a supposedly peaceful anti-nuclear demonstration gone wrong. Was the copper killed in the heat of the violence of the demonstration as is first assumed, or did someone have a personal vendetta against him? It's up to Banks and crew as well as the haughty "Dirty Dick" Burgess, sent up to Yorkshire from London to find out.

I didn't like this one quite as much as the last--it seemed there were just too many of the same descriptions of lighting cigarettes and pouring this or that drink over and over and OVER again; not only Banks, but those he's with as well. I have no problem with the characters smoking or drinking, but we don't really need to read the details every time they light up or have a pint or a drink, do we? I think the book would have been about a third lighter with a few of those descriptions left out. LOL Still, an interesting entry the series--it wasn't enough to put me off it by any means, more an annoyance than anything--and one bonus was that I didn't figure out the mystery until the very end.

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