Title : A Taste of Fog and Ashes - Peter Robinson - Book
Summary :
"The fog tasted of ashes," Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks thought, turning up the collar of his raincoat. He hadn't yet seen the body, but already he felt that familiar pang that always accompanied the discovery of a murder.
Banks looked at the body. In all his time at Eastvale, he'd never encountered a crime like this, though he'd seen worse in London, of course.
The girl, who appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, was lying on her back in the tall grass behind an enormous Victorian-style tomb, on which stood a statue of an angel.
The teenager's fixed eyes scanned the fog, her long blond hair formed a halo around her head, and her face was purple. She had a small cut near her left eye and a bruise on her neck. A trickle of blood resembling a large tear escaped from her left nostril.
She looked so vulnerable, she had been attacked so savagely, that he imagined her embarrassment at the thought of being so openly viewed. But she was well beyond shame now.
Peter Robinson, born in 1950 in Yorkshire, set most of the investigations carried out by his hero, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, in his native region.
Intuitive and stubborn, rich in wisdom without illusions, Banks possesses to the highest degree that gift of sympathy, that indulgent compassion which are the prerogative of great detectives.
- EAN: 9782253090243
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