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  • Standing in the Shadows

  • By: Peter Robinson
  • Narrated by: Simon Slater
  • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Standing in the Shadows

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Simon Slater
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Publisher's summary

The 28th and final installment of the number one best-selling Inspector Banks series by “the grand master of the genre” (Literary Review), Peter Robinson.

In November 1980, student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realizes two things in quick succession: He is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has his own suspicions as to what might have happened....

Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.

©2023 Peter Robinson (P)2023 McClelland & Stewart
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Critic reviews

“[O]ne of the finest police procedural writers around… [Standing in the Shadows] is as narratively rich and surprising as Robinson’s best work. Knowing it’s his last makes the reading bittersweet.” --New York Times Book Review

"Readers will love getting a fascinating primer in both modern forensics and archaeological techniques.... As usual, Banks' steadfast, multifaceted character holds his team and the story itself together....The ending, in which the two narratives join, is a stunner." --Booklist

"As always in the Banks novels, readers will enjoy the details of pop culture and social history. This is an intelligent and satisfying procedural." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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