Friend of the Devil

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author Peter Robinson—a riveting double homicide leaves two seasoned detectives baffled as they race against the clock before more corpses surface.

Two murders . . . two towns . . .

A woman sits in a wheelchair perched on a cliff high above the sea, her throat slit from ear to ear . . .

In a maze of narrow alleys behind a market square, a teenaged girl has been murdered after a night of drunken revelries with her friends.

The seemingly senseless Cliffside killing falls to Inspector Annie Cabbot, on loan to a local police department. The terrible death of young Hayley Daniels becomes Chief Inspector Alan Banks's investigation. But shattering revelations threaten to awaken the slumbering demons of earlier, darker times, and more blood is in the offing when the two cases brutally and unexpectedly collide.

Friend of the Devil is a chilling, brilliant, and utterly mesmerizing novel of suspense.

This time Book 4; Reader 5

This is how the Banks series should be read! Try this one.

Matters of the Heart

I liked it...! It keep my mind spinning. The charactors where phenominally narrated! Good Novel.....Great Narrator....Author DeAnn DeVille

Stop the music

the music at beginnings of each part was ridiculous and distracting, to point of interfering with hearing the narration. Otherwise, the story ans Simon Prebble were very good.

Improvement from previous narrator

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, I liked the story. It was very complex and there was a lot of other smaller stories going on in the background with the main character, which added a certain amount of color to the story.

What other book might you compare Friend of the Devil to and why?

It is in keeping with previous books by this author.

Did Simon Prebble do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Simon Prebble was definitely an improvement from the previous narrator, it took a little while to get used to the different take on the characters. I really enjoyed James Langton's narration, but this was definitely manageable. It was a little over produced, the music added at random times was annoying, and I am not sure why they felt they had to use that strange sound effect when Banks read Templeton progress note.

Did Friend of the Devil inspire you to do anything?

Yes, I think I might be able to continue with the series, I stopped when I listened to Ron Keith.

Ruined by music

What did you love best about Friend of the Devil?

Simon Prebble is at his usual best here. I like the way Robinson runs 2 investigations simultaneously.

Any additional comments?

What's with the music at odd times? not even between chapters. and it runs over into the first few words of the following section. Definitely a bad idea. I see they do it again in the next installment.