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Violence
Some
A murder connected to trafficking operations; the rural crime escalates
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Human trafficking as a plot element; handled seriously
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The way organized crime embeds itself in rural economies that are already under pressure; a detective who follows the thread wherever it leads
What this book is about
Agricultural machinery is being stolen across North Yorkshire — farm equipment worth thousands, vanishing in the night. When the investigation connects to Eastern European trafficking operations and then to a murder, Banks finds himself in territory that links rural crime to international organized crime. Peter Robinson's twenty-second Banks novel is one of the most specifically rural of the series — the Yorkshire farming community is rendered with care — and the trafficking plotline has the same political edge as the immigration-focused novels.
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human trafficking as a plot element
twenty-second of the Banks series
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