Strange Affair (inspector Alan Banks Series #15)

on A Summer Night, An Attractive Woman Hurtles North In A Blue Peugeot With An Address In Her Pocket, While, Back In London, A Desperate Man Leaves A Late-night Phone Message On His Brother's Answering Machine. By Sunrise, The Woman Is Found In Her Car, Shot, Execution-style, Through The Head.

detective Inspector Annie Cabbot Arrives On The Scene And Discovers A Slip Of Paper In The Dead Woman's Pocket That Bears The Name Of Her Colleague And Erstwhile Lover, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. Banks, Meanwhile -
withdrawn After Nearly Dying In The Fire That Destroyed His Home - Has Gone Missing Just When He's Needed Most, And Has Left Plenty Of Questions Behind.

as Annie Struggles To Determine If Banks Is Safe - And What Role He May Have Played In The Woman's Murder - Banks Himself Investigates The Mysterious Disappearance Of His Estranged Brother, Roy. Working From Roy's Swank Apartment, Banks Makes The Rounds To Roy's Old Haunts And Slowly Inhabits The Life Of His...

the Washington Post - Patrick Anderson

banks Admits That He Had Assumed That Prostitutes Were In The Business By Choice, But The Interpol Man Shows Him That Is Often Not The Case. In Exploring The Issue Of Sexual Slavery, Robinson Joins Other Crime Writers, And Many Journalists, In Casting A Light On Dark Corners Of Our Society. John Lescroart's the Motive, Reviewed Here Recently, Took A Hard Look At Another Urgent Issue, Prosecutorial Misconduct, As Have Numerous Lawyers Who Have Turned To Fiction. It Is Heartening To See First-rate Writers Like Robinson And Lescroart Becoming, In Effect, Muckrakers, For Ours Is A World With An Inexhaustible Supply Of Muck That Needs Raking.