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| Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks Mysteries) | 
| Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1048690
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 309
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0380975807
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780380975808
ASIN: 0380975807
Publication Date: December 1, 1997
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Amazon.com Review
There's a deliberate lack of excessive angst and glamour in Peter Robinson's books about Inspector Alan Banks and his fellow Yorkshire coppers, so first-time readers might think them bland. But under the books' placid surfaces, whole worlds of crime and justice are being worked out. In this ninth book in his increasingly popular series, Robinson gives Banks some serious problems of a personal and professional nature: a neglected wife and a ruthlessly ambitious superior. He also drops Banks into a frighteningly realistic neo-Nazi group called the Albion League, whose activities include drug dealing and murder. Other books in the series available in paperback include Innocent Graves, Final Account, Gallow's View, and Hanging Valley.
Product Description
Suburban Yorkshire is rocked by the discovery of the body of a young man found stomped to death. Detective Chief Inspector Banks thinks he has an airtight case, especially after he realizes the victim was a member of a secretive neo-Nazi hate group. Haunted by the feeling that there's a darker side to the murder, however, Banks probes further--and ends up suspended from the force Print ads.
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 Too many side plots, not enough of a whodunnit. September 23, 2008
This is far from being a favorite among british detective novels. Too much space devoted to side plots, not enough of the whodunnit quality. Definitely not is the same class with Christie, Sayers, Dickson Carr, Elizabeth George,Ruth Rendell, and such.
Ray
Good Book But Petered Out at the End July 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Peter Robinson always writes a fine novel: good pacing, well-developed characters, a plot which moves steadily and capably toward its denouement. And this one is no exception although the ending was, in my estimation, disappointing. But up until that point, Robinson lays out for us a feast -- or at least a nice lunch. He takes his characters, especially Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, through no small amount of emotional travail, which gives the book added poignancy. But the ending was weak in that ...well, you'll just have to see. I've read all Robinson's Banks books and this is a good one, just not one of his best.
 A Difficult One for Banks June 3, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and is the author of a number of previous novels featuring Inspector Banks. He is the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada, and in 2002 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. As I also come from Leeds the background to his stories is something that I have experienced first hand and because of this I have a special affection for his books. However they would be first class crime fiction wherever they were based.
Having said that I can understand to a degree why some readers may not like the books. Banks is a character that has grown over several books and the author is very comfortable not only with the character of Banks, but all the other character too. To me this makes the stories flow because the author instinctively knows how his characters are going to react in certain situations. The books are produced as a series and it is nice if you can read them all in the order they were written, but this is by no means compulsory as each book stands alone. They are what I would call `light' reading. By that I mean that they flow and not that they are third rate in any sense, in fact quite the opposite.
A young man has been kicked to death in a filthy alleyway. The victim is a known racist and at first it looks like the result of a pub fight gone wrong, until that is Banks learns that Jason Fox, the victim was a member of a white power organization known as the Albion League. Fox was bound to have enemies but who hated him enough to kill him? The young Pakistanis he had insulted in the pub earlier? Shady friends of his business partner, mark Wood? Someone who resented the teenager's growing power in a brutal and unforgiving organization? One thing is for sure Banks is not going to be short of suspects . . .
A very fine mystery February 28, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It started slow but eventually picked up speed. DCI Alan Banks and DC Susan Gray are mired what seems to be a racially motivated murder. The brutally beaten victim is a member of a neo-Nazi group and three Pakistanis had an altercation with the victim in the local pub before he died. As Banks and Gray explore the neo-Nazi group in Eastvale and Leeds, their social lives take divergent paths. While Banks and his wife are growing apart, ultimately leading to separation, Susan Gray is starting to date again. With his love of classical music and devotion to work, Banks is a ubiquitous, amiable character.
Banks Number Nine: Worthwhile March 24, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
A young man is beaten to death in an alleyway at night. The plot thickens when his identity is discovered: Jason Fox, a leading light of the Albion League, a thoroughly unpleasant extreme right racist fringe group. As DCI Banks and DC Susan Gay piece the details of Fox's nasty story together, their lives complicate in other ways. Susan is embarking on a relationship with Gavin, a colleague from regional HQ. Meanwhile the state of Banks' marriage is going from bad to worse as is his relationship with his boss Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle. This book, whose British title is `Dead Right', didn't seem to me to be quite as good as its predecessor `Innocent Graves' but is nonetheless another pretty strong and worthwhile procedural from Robinson.
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