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4/5 Pan Macmillan Language English ISBN 0-330-48220-3 Originally published 1994 Genre Crime Fiction Followed by Innocent Graves | 4/5 Goodreads Country Canada Publication date 1994 OCLC 47036069 Publisher Macmillan Publishers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback), (Paperback) Awards Arthur Ellis Awards for Best Novel Similar Peter Robinson books, Inspector Banks series books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dry Bones that Dream is the seventh novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the multi award-winning Inspector Banks series of novels. The novel was first printed in 1994, but has been reprinted a number of times since. The novel was later published in the United States under the new title of Final Account.
Plot
One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask as he sifts through Rothwell’s life. Rothwell was generally known in the area as a mild-mannered, dull sort of person, but even a cursory investigation raises more questions than answers. When Banks’s old sparring partner, DS Richard “Dirty Dick” Burgess, turns up from the Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist, and Banks finds himself racing against time as the killers seem to be dogging his footsteps. Only after he pits his job against his sense of justice does he discover the truth. And the truth leads him to one of the most difficult decisions of his career.