The detective, in a nick of time, does save the day, not only preserving his own skin and that of his five extra-terrestrial buddies, but even convincing the galactic civilization to permit humanity to retain its newly developed teleporter technology. When they had finished photographing and examining the body in situ, they cut it down, careful to preserve the knot, and laid it on a stretcher the coroner’s officer supplied. finds the Yorkshire copper trying to unravel a murder-suicide with potential ties to national security. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. It appears to have been a lover's spat turned into a murder/suicide but once it is found out that one of the dead men was a secret agent with MI6 things start to seem more complicated than at first presumed.

However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning his victims to death, and Bob becomes a suspect.

In fact, there is quite an air of desperation around banks as everything gets fucked up around him as he does his job. I was relieved when Darzek was unexpectedly teleported to the moon while chasing a suspect through one of Universal Trans's teleporter portals. A woman recovering from a car accident in which she lost her unborn child finds herself pursued by a coven of devil worshipers.

Opening day in New York City was a tremendous success, with throngs of travelers crowding into the terminal. Usually I'm gripped by Robinson's writing within a few chapters, but it took a lot longer before I really got into this one. By no means do I limit myself to those categories, and seek out interesting books in all fields at every opportunity.

New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson delivers a gripping novel of jealousy, betrayal, envy, ambition, greed, lust, revengeâall the colors of darkness that lead inevitably to murder. The uniformed officers had taped off the area around the tree, into which entry would be severely restricted. Afterwards Jane begins to experience nightmares of a strange man and starts seeing him in her waking life, making her increasingly unable to distinguish the dream world from the real one.

In which, what in the face of it looks like a suicide, after the murder of a gay couple, turns into a world of paranoia and conspiracy, when it is revealed that one of the victims is a former MI6 agent.I don't recommend it, even though I have enjoyed some of the previous Inspector Banks stories (I think). I go to great pains to describe condition accurately, listing all flaws, sometimes with the result that the book description may not look all that attractive. I enjoyed this book but can't say that it is up to par with the other Inspector Banks novels I've read to date.