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Violence
Some
A murder; the investigation involves the victim's hidden life; nightclub setting
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content; the victim's hidden activities are part of the investigation
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific difficulty of investigating a man whose death reveals a life that nobody knew he was living; Banks's ability to hold the contradiction of a respectable victim in a disreputable place
What this book is about
A stamp collector — a respectable, quiet man — is found dead in a seedy Leeds nightclub, in circumstances that make no sense given everything known about him. DI Alan Banks investigates the gap between who the man appeared to be and who he actually was. Peter Robinson's sixth Banks novel is the most focused on the specific shame that drives people to lead double lives — the gap between the private self and the public presentation — and Banks's investigation involves untangling which version of the man was real.
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sixth Banks novel by Peter Robinson
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