" This is an Inspector Banks story and very good because it ends well. Having read some slightly out of order, I've found these pre-Annie Cabbot stories a bit flatter, but a good read all around. " The emotional core of the story, Gemma, got short shrift in a rushed ending.
Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. It certainly is a fascinating look into what people will do to satisfy their emotional needs. This book is often said to be his finest. He writes so incredibly well - clearly and with warmth and intelligence. One article I read said that he is underrated. Peter Robinson is one of the authors who is at the top of my crime-reading list. Then a body of a young man turns up in an abandoned lead mine. However, she is "busy" and doesn't get around to calling the police until late in the day. They promise to return her the next morning. "Seven year old Gemma's incredibly stupid and slatternly mother gives her child to two people who say they are from child protective services and are investigating "abuse" allegations. And the grisly discovery of a young man slain in a particularly savage fashion only starts the clock ticking faster, drawing Banks into the sordid depths of an evil more terrible and terrifying than anything he has ever encountered. 
But there are worse fates than death in a nightmare world of human monsters and their twisted games. With each passing moment, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks realizes that the child's death becomes more and more likely. It was a crime of staggering inhumanity: a seven-year-old girl taken from her home right in front of her desperate working-class mother.
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