I just finished reading Not Dark Yet, the lastest Inspector Banks mystery by Peter Robinson. These books take place in rural Yorkshire, and I must say, Yorkshire seems to have a lot of grizzly murders. Not Dark Yet is a sequel to Many Rivers to Cross. In that book, in addition to solving the murder of a Middle Eastern boy, Banks is concerned about his friend Zelda, who was kidnapped from her native Moldova as a teenager and forced to work as a sex slave until escaping, and appears to be in a precarious situation. In Not Dark Yet, Zelda has been kidnapped by the Albanian mafia. In addition, Banks and his team are investigating the killing of a disreputable real estate developer and his assistant. Personally, I enjoyed both books, and was quite surprised at the number of negative reviews on Amazon of Many Rivers to Cross. The reviews of Not Dark Yet were about 50-50, and I am not sure why. I think the characters and plot of these books are as good as ever. Plus, you learn a lot about rural Yorkshire. Of course, most of these reviewers are British, and probably still bitter about Brexit, which makes them surly about almost everything. I myself recommend you pick up copies of these two books at your local library, and decide for yourself.
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