Sunday, May 03, 2015

Caedmons' Song by Peter Robinson
Alas, no DCI Alan Banks in this one.....

I should pay better attention when I order books. This is a novel by Peter Robinson, the Yorkshireman who writes the Inspector Banks series. This book, Caedemon’s Song, did not feature Banks at all and I have to say I was disappointed when I realized this. But….my fault for not carefully reading the description before I clicked “buy”, right?

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Robinson stated he wanted to take a break from the DCI Banks series and write from the victim’s point of view, rather than the police procedural type. The premise of this story revolves around a young lady named Kirsten who was brutally attacked one evening as she walks home alone through a park. The wounds she suffers are horrific. She survived only because she was found by a man walking his dog, otherwise she would have bled out. Kirsten wakes up in hospital over a week later, unaware of what happened to her. She has no memory of the attack. Her parents are in the hospital room with her, concerned about the injuries and how they will affect the rest of her life. The police question her, desperate to find her attacker but no matter how hard she tries she has no recollection of that night.

More women are attacked but they do not survive. Kirsten undergoes hypnotic therapy and slowly, the nightmare of the attack and details surface. She provides the police with as much detail as she cares to share with them but decides she has her own agenda as far as her attacker goes. I can’t reveal any more without spoiling the storyline.

I am a big fan of Peter Robinson but I will say I prefer the Inspector Banks series over this story. Well written, kept me reading and the first clue confirming what I suspected didn’t appear until 30 pages before the end. So that’s good, the reader didn’t have it all figured out early on.

Adding my review to Goodreads, The British Book Challenge.

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4 comments:

  1. I really like my authors to stick to my favorite characters too!
    Don't they know we love them? LOL
    BTW your ice-box pork sounded good.

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    1. It was still a decent book but I agree with you, please give us more Alan Banks ��
      Thanks about the pork, it's amazing.

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  2. Haven't read this author but will be checking out his Inspector Banks series. This sounds good to me so I might give it a go.

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    1. I hope you like the books Vicki. I think the first one in the series was written in the late 90's.

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