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All the Colours of Darkness

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All the Colours of Darkness

By: Peter Robinson
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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 A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annie's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe.

(P)2010 ISIS Publishing Ltd©2012 Eastvale Enterprises Inc. Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Banking

Critic reviews

First class crime complete with a lot of emotional intrigue
The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series on the market
Banks is one of the most fully-drawn figures in this genre of fiction
Brilliant!
All stars
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What did you like best about All the Colours of Darkness? What did you like least?

As usual great story the Narration really awful

Who was your favorite character and why?

Annie

What didn’t you like about Richard Burnip’s performance?

At times his tone is screeching

If this book were a film would you go see it?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Love Peter Robinson

Narration Awful

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Interesting, convoluted and one can only hope that it's fiction. Just saying those words makes me feel like an innocent abroad!!

Fiction - One Hopes!!

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One good idea for plot- really interesting. But tedious characters to my mind and mundane writing. This is my first Peter Robinson. Maybe I'm missing something!

Unsatisfying

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I was almost put off reading this title by the first review, above, which claims that the narrator fails to distinguish characters' voices. Happy to have tried, however, because the narrator is perfectly good ... I'm not sure what lies behind the first reviewer's comments, but I couldn't recognize the problem mentioned there. The narrator does a fine job on the text, and there's no problem at all telling characters apart. Oh, and the story is good too!

Perfectly Good Narrator

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This was a good example of the inspector banks books-not necessarily the best but good to read as part of the series.
Did not like the narrators performance-it was more like a simple reading of the book as he hardly varied the voices-but at least it was not distracting voice so ok.

Good book which fits well in the series

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