A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detective’s most intense and gripping case yet – from an author hailed by Louise Penny as “a writer at the top of his game.”With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young woman’s death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a … fifty-year-old assault allegedly perpetrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and it’s Banks’ job to discover the shocking truth.
As more women step forward with accounts of Caxton’s manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence – as the investigation leads him down the darkest of paths…
Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Music’s Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.
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GREAT BOOK
Good series
Love Peter Robinson. Banks is such an interesting character.
i liked the book, its not the latest,but the latest in the alan banks series, love english police procedurals and the american and swedish ones too.
Would have given this book more stars, but I found the story hard to follow with all the literary and musical information thrown in. Kept getting side tracked.
Great book
Too much talk, too little action along with a cop with a chip on her shoulder was just too unimpressive to finish much less to recommend. Seemed like the author wanted to tackle some of the problems with large scale immigration and the biases that go along with it while at the same time having a cop on board with her own very obvious set of biases. The characters and some of the situations they got into seemed unrealistic. Everyone has biases and one of mine is avoid wasting time on slow moving books!
Kind of slogged through this book and didn’t particularly care for the characters. I have seen the Banks/Cabbot series on PBS (?) and have come to like the series. However, I am having a hard time keeping any interest in the book. Too many paragraphs about the music Alan is listening to, is going to listen to, or has listened to. It’s just filler. I really didn’t care what happened to the two female leads because of the poor character development. I wouldn’t read another book from this author in this series.
Peter Robinson’s characters are fully realized in every mystery he writes.
A worthy and currently topical (sex abuse by celebrity) addition to the very good Alan Banks series, less about the personal life of the detectives than in some books in the series, , the focus is on solving the crimes.
I’ve read all of this series, and this was one of the dullest. Got better towards the end.
Robinson is one of my favorite authors – always delivers.
When the Music’s Over is a good murder mystery. I was impressed with the realistic dialog. My husband & I watch DCI Banks on our local PBS station & have enjoyed it for several years. This book was so true to the characters! It moved along well & had a satisfactory climax.
Characters and writing terrific. I like this series and look forard to the next one.
This British suthor has been writing g about Banks and his team of police for years and he just keeps getting better.
If you like authentic settings, interesting people, great plotting and insight into Banks…read his books starting with this and try his earlier ones. In his early ones, it’s more country murders in cozy setting with Banks married and with children. As he moved up the ladder to different towns, you see the family and Banks react to the changes until it’s just Banks on his own trying to move up higher and the cases becomes deeper and more thought provoking.
This book is dead on for the climate today of sex abuse charges finally coming out against a famous person and it is a matter of he said, she said until more information is discovered on the crime going back to 1967. While Banks and partner Winsome try to find evidence of a long ago crime, his old partner Annie and Gerry investigate a new crime. Mindy is a young girl found beaten and abused, thrown from a van, nude on a country road.
And as it is now in most countries, tension runs high between the coppers and the immigrants…the Pakistani of one area feeling the heat of being “brown”. Yet, some are using this as an opportunity to at the race card. This reads true in the atmosphere and the times we live in. Class and race and sex are all tackled in this thoughtful mystery.
You feel the city, the country, the upscale, the people struggling and those that have given up. Banks does not give up and tries his best to keep his humanity with music, books and people.
I like well written books
I always look forward to a new Peter Robinson novel and this one is one of the best I’ve read.
Intermixing of two story lines added to plot and character development.
Peter Robinson has settled into a predictable dull pattern in his last few books, harping on the same themes without adding new insights or insightful characters. I couldn’t finish this. I’m finished with Peter Robinson.
A bit plodding in the procedural details at times but overall a good read.