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5
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The body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line. In the four years since his dismissal for sexual misconduct, he’d been living like a hermit. So where did he get the 5,000 pounds found in his pocket? Leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to suspect that the victim's past may be connected to his death. Forty years ago the dead man attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter politics. And as the seasoned detective well knows, some grudges are never forgotten - or forgiven.
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Contemporary Social Problems and Poetry
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4 out of 5 stars
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A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales---a former university professor, wealthy historian, and archaeologist who loved his adopted village. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues---by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Publisher's Summary
Critic Reviews
"A proven master of the British police procedural, Robinson should find a large audience for this gripping, psychologically astute tale." (Publishers Weekly)
"This multilayered novel puts Banks firmly in the upper echelon of British mystery writers." (Library Journal)
"A devilishly good plotter...[Robinson's] characterizations are so subtle that even the psychological profiler is stumped." (New York Times Book Review)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Kev
- 11-22-04
Excellent Police Procedural
Peter Robinson gives us another entry in the series of police procedurals set in Yorkshire and featuring Inspector Banks. Fully realized characters, well-drawn setting. Plotting a little hokey near the end with some breathless action not in keeping with Robinson's normally highly realistic style. Doesn't ruin it; just a bit melodramatic for Robinson.
The reader is masterful: wide range of great voice characterizations; every phrase read for meaning.
Highly recommended, if not quite so good as Robinson's "In a Dry Season".
8 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Marc
- 06-24-05
Hit
This author is getting better and better. This story is a refreshing twist on the serial killer motif. There is a small stumble near the end of the book, but it is very slight and doesn't marr a great book.
6 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Colleen
- 01-27-05
In Defense of Ron Keith
After some previous comments regarding the narrative abilities of Ron Keith, I feel the need to stick up for the man a bit. It is true that his accent is pretty much a one noter, even Canadians and Americans sound like they're from Yorkshire. And most of his women, not all, tend to sound a little Pythonesque. I find that amusing more than annoying though. He does do justice to the story, he doesn't rush, he sounds as though he is really enjoying himself, I feel that the main characters gain personality through Mr. Keith. I have a distinct image and flavor now of Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot. So while he does not dramatize the reading, he lends it a lot of character. Aftermath is as good as any Peter Robinson book, if you like P.D. James and Elizabeth George, you will appreciate Peter Robinson.
11 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- TMK
- 09-24-05
Reader kept me from buying this book
I can listen to a wide variety of readers. But this reader put me off to the point where I refused to get this book by one of my favorite authors. It wasn't even the voices of the characters that I found so objectionable, but his normal reading voice that seemed to attempt to infuse every word with intrigue. Some listerners may like that, but I can't listen to those few readers who do this. It's like overacting, and ruins the story for me.
10 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Greg
- 05-12-09
Book 4; Reader 0
Title says it all. Reader should stick to Period Romances. This book is a whodoneit.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- night owl
- 07-02-18
Narration is a joke
Seriously Are they pulling our leg.Men sound like idiots and the women like old ladies.What a shame This has a interesting plot with good characters.Too bad it sounds so ridiculous.
2 people found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Mary Lynn Richardson
- 08-08-07
Appalling narration
This is a perfect example of how a good book can be ruined by almost unbelievably awful narration.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Chuck
- 01-28-05
afermath
ditto: very good; those who know nothing of the English may not like the narrator, but this is good, like all of Robinson's books.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- Marjorie
- 03-29-05
Ruined by the narrator
Aftermath is a good book but the narration by Ron Keith spoiled it for me. Most of the time he sounded like he had a head cold and his accents were terrible. A big disappointment.
7 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Terrance A. Tomkow
- 08-02-04
Boring story. Awful Narrator.
Probably no one could have brought this boring, repetitive and obvious story to life but the narrator here is the worst I?ve ever encountered in an audio book. The reader is so intent on affecting a broad Yorkshire accent that he pays no attention to character or content. All his women characters whine, all his male characters bark gruffly, all the time, no matter what they are saying. Avoid this one.
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