Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks Novels) by Peter Robinson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks Novels)
Book Review: One of the best and most innovative in the series so far
Summary: 4 Stars
This mystery series about DCI Banks and his investigative adventures in darkest Yorkshire just keep getting better and better. Usually, they're straight police procedurals with a leavening of individual personalities, and they're also almost entirely from Banks's own point of view. But this time Robinson departs somewhat from the usual. A teenage girl from a wealthy and influential family in the town is found strangled in a closely wooded corner of the graveyard (discovered by the vicar's wife, in fact, who has her own problems regarding accusations and innuendo). There are a number of good suspects, including the girl's sometime thuggish boyfriend, and a Croatian handyman, and a teacher at her elite school -- or it could be just an unknown sex murderer passing by. And then, halfway through the book, we switch to the POV of an English teacher at the local tech school who happened to be in the right place at the right time, who is a bit strange anyway (those who are different always make good villains in the eyes of everyone else), and whom Banks and his crew decide must be the killer. In fact, the nightmarish ease with which Owen Pierce finds himself in a cell awaiting trial should be unsettling to anyone. He's very easy to identify with as he goes through his ordeal in court (luckily for him, he has an excellent barrister -- though there's no mention of how he's supposed to be able to pay the woman), and even more so in trying to deal with society afterward. But Banks is an honest copper and when a second murder takes place that strongly resembles the first, he plays it fair. An excellent and involving story.
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