Many Rivers to Cross: DCI Banks 26

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Salma and Bilal are your typical British couple looking to move off the estate and into a quiet suburban neighborhood. He emigrated to Canada in 1974 and continued his academic studies in Ontario, pursuing an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor — with American author Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor — and then a PhD in English at York University. As the local press seize upon an illegal immigrant angle, and the national media cover the story of another stabbing, there is a less newsworthy death: a middle-aged heroin addict found dead of an overdose in another estate, scheduled for redevelopment. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County.

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He was best known for the Inspector Banks series of novels set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. Surveillance photos reveal that Blaydon runs with very insalubrious associates—foreigners from Albania and “other Balkan states” who are involved with drugs, guns, and “possibly sex trafficking. In black and gold and a bright arsenic green, this is undeniably one of the best-looking books about true crime to ever grace my desk.Back in Yorkshire, even as he deals with an increasingly complicated local criminal conspiracy, Bank worries about the pedigrees of the nasty players involved. Banks doesn’t dwell on Keane’s reappearance: there’s always a new case to be solved in North Yorkshire. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for. Hawkins, likely “the worse for drink,” fell asleep after he put a “pan full of oil on the burner to heat up. Zelda, a police consultant and “super recognizer” who never forgot a face she has encountered, is a former sex slave and forced prostitute from the age of 17.

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For another, the job she turns out to have been hired for—leading an investigation her new boss doesn’t feel he can entrust to his own force—makes her queasy. Timmy was suspected of an unhealthy interest in teenage girls, whereas Tommy was gay and preferred young boys. Hawkins collected gourmet magazines, checked out “well-reviewed new restaurants,” and in her opinion, had never had “fish and chips in his life.

Banks’ investigating team consisted of Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot and Detective Constable Gerry Masterson. She’s a geography teacher and he’s a restaurateur, though the pandemic has made it really hard to keep a business afloat in the latter industry. Although Malden Terrace is no more immune from nativist racism than other neighborhoods, the traces of cocaine in the dead boy’s pocket hint at equally sinister connections—from low-end Howard Stokes, a diabetic heroin user found dead in his home, to high-end developer Connor Clive Blaydon, an associate of Albanian Mafia stalwart Leka Gashi who’s more recently partnered with equally dodgy Timmy and Tommy Kerrigan to build Elmet Centre, which, Blaydon piously assures Banks, will do the area no end of good. But Banks’s attention is also on Zelda, who in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stone cold Eastern European sex traffickers who brought her to the UK.