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Violence
Some
Two murders across different eras; procedural violence
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Some adult content in the 1969 festival setting
Substance Use
Some
Significant drug use depicted in the 1969 festival sections as period texture
Emotional Intensity
Some
The way a cultural moment becomes fixed in memory while the crimes that happened inside it stay buried; the specific nostalgia of Banks for that era of music
What this book is about
A music journalist is found murdered near Eastvale, and his death connects to a cold case from 1969 — a woman stabbed at a rock festival during that era's cultural high-water mark. DS Annie Cabbot works the 1969 case from archive material while Banks investigates the present-day murder. Peter Robinson's sixteenth Banks novel is his most deliberately nostalgic — the 1969 sections are rendered with love for that particular moment in British music — and one of the most formally satisfying in its use of parallel timelines.
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drug use in the 1969 flashback sections
sixteenth of the Banks series
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