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BarbaraBB
Gallows View | Peter Robinson
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Thanks to @kspenmoll I started this series and I did enjoy it. This first installment was written in the 1980s and it‘s rather misogynistic but I didn‘t really mind. I liked the characters and the setting and am curious about the second book.

📸 Cannes, France

Bookwormjillk Pretty picture 6d
Lesliereadsalot You‘re on the move! 6d
AlaMich That picture could 💯 be Los Angeles, with the ocean in the background ! 🌴 (edited) 6d
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kspenmoll Yes to your comment re Misogynistic, er time5, but improves over in time as series progresses. 6d
BarbaraBB @AlaMich I was surprised to see how much it resembles LA too. Just the Mediterranean instead of the Pacific. I love palm trees 🌴 6d
BarbaraBB @kspenmoll that‘s good to know and honestly I didn‘t really mind, growing up in the 80s myself! 6d
BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot I had to be in Cannes for work but have been going there by train from Nice which I think is a much nicer place to stay! 6d
Lesliereadsalot South of France is my dream vacation! 6d
BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot Really? Well I hope you‘ll get here one day 💕 (edited) 6d
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SITG-Chilling. Shocking.A wedding massacre.A decoy shooter.Jenny Fuller,a forensic psychological profiler returns to assist DCI Banks & his team.Strange occurrences lead the police to pursue a devious,immoral military trained sniper who is set on a revenge vendetta rooted in his childhood.
CL-A woman is found dead,placed in an abandoned car.A man suited in business attire is discovered in a gully.A high class call girl enterprise is discovered⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ National Intelligence agencies become interested.Is Banks‘ nemesis,who tried to murder him,involved? MRTC-immigration racism. Middle Eastern war-torn countries moving to the UK a young boy found dead stuffed into a wheelie bin(garbage can). Banks & his team move quickly to solve the murder to avoid a flareup of racial/class tensions.Meanwhile, a close friend is in a precarious situation & needs his help. (edited) 1mo
BarbaraBB I bought the first one just because of you. Will read it soon 4w
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kspenmoll
Many Rivers to Cross | Peter Robinson
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Emmy is busy trying to push my book away(into the coffee cup!) Her very clear message: I want your attention! Absolutely No Books! We Do Not Care that reading is your passion! #WDNCW #catsoflitsy #coffeeandbooks #DCIBanksNovel

rubyslippersreads I think just about every day is We Do Not Care Day for cats! 😹 1mo
lil1inblue @rubyslippersreads 😹 🎯😹 1mo
willaful @rubyslippersreads They created it! 1mo
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kspenmoll @rubyslippersreads 😹😹🤣🤣 Truth!!! 1mo
AnnCrystal 💕😹💝. 1mo
dabbe A #WDNCW from the cat's POV! L😍VE! 🧡💜💛 1mo
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kspenmoll
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#23 in the DCI Banks series covers multiple themes throughout the novel:teen sexual exploitation,rape, classism,sexism,immigration,to name a few.A celebrated poet comes forward to ask that her 50 yr cold case of rape by a beloved celebrity at 14 be reopened in light of the fact that numerous rape victims have come forward with similar allegations.Banks & his teams‘ investigation uncover cases of underage rape & murder perpetuated by this man.⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ As always,the importance of music, literature, & poetry to Banks is explored & discussed in this novel. I love this aspect of the series, & have discovered music & poetry new to me with each book. ❤️ 1mo
BarbaraBB I just bought the first in the series based on your reviews 1mo
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kspenmoll
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Librarybelle Yay!! 1mo
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kspenmoll
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COTR:An indigent ex-college professor, who 40 yrs ago was dismissed for alleged sexual misconduct, is found dead,with $$$ in his picket.Suspicious,DCI Banks investigates.The case takes him to past politics & militant protests of the 60s/70s & to the current upper echelon of society. ITDP:Body counts are high in this dark, gruesome tale.2 young men go missing. A truck goes down an embankment,revealing a corpse in bags. Banks & his team are 🔽

kspenmoll 🔼 caught up in an evil international labyrinth of crime & murder. #21,#22 in the series. #serieslove2025 2mo
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kspenmoll
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BB:After a neighbor of DCI Banks reports her daughter Erin has a gun in her home,a shocking death occurs.Erin‘s best friend is Bank‘s daughter Tracy,who is missing along with a psychopath “Bad Boy”.Enraged,with his heart in his throat,Banks & DI Cabbot are on the hunt.Cabbot gets caught up in the crossfire,with dark consequences.
WTD:while investigating a murder of a fellow officer, Banks travels a circuitous route to Estonia.He confronts human ⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ trafficking, Eastern European mobsters, & the 6 year old case of a missing 19 yr old English woman. #19, #20 in the series. #serieslove2025 2mo
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In the Dark Places | Peter Robinson
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Another in this series I am so hooked on. I need to slow down…this is # 22/28.
Enjoying nature from my porch - a Campari & soda before dinner, and some reading.
Hearing a Robin, a Cedar Waxwing, & a House Sparrow at the moment (Merlin Bird ID).

BarbaraBB Such a perfect setting again! You know how to enjoy life ❤️ 2mo
sarahbarnes 💕💕💕 2mo
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kspenmoll
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Afternoon coffee, a book, & a pet.

lil1inblue 😻😻😻 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
AnnCrystal 💕😻💝. 2mo
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