I love watching the ITV drama series DCI Banks, which is based on the novels by bestselling author Peter Robinson, but I'm ashamed to admit that I have not read any of the books! The latest book in the series, the twenty-first, Children of the Revolution is due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton on 15th August.
A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket
on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his
job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a
poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.
The
suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to
teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex
University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a
warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to
the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty more skeletons to
come out of the closet...
