Inspector Banks · Book 23

When the Music's Over

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
692
ISBN-13
9780062466389
Type
novel
Cover of When the Music's Over

About this book

When the Music's Over (2016), the twenty-third entry at 692 pages, is the longest in the series, following Abattoir Blues and preceding Sleeping in the Ground. Music has always coloured Peter Robinson's prose given Banks's own enthusiasm for it, making the title a fitting late addition.

Key facts about When the Music's Over

When the Music's Over is a novel by Peter Robinson. Readers have had it since 2016. It runs to 692 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of When the Music's Over. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780062466389 to find the main one.

When the Music's Over is book 23 of 28 in the Inspector Banks series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Gallows View (1987). Watching the Dark is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 August 2012.

That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Standing in the Shadows is the latest published Peter Robinson book on file, from 2023.

About Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson was a British-Canadian crime novelist best known for the Inspector Alan Banks series, a long-running police procedural set in and around the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. See every Peter Robinson book in order.

Its place in Inspector Banks

When the Music's Over is book 23 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Abattoir Blues. It is followed by Sleeping in the Ground. See the full Inspector Banks reading order.

Alan Banks left a burnt-out career in the Metropolitan Police for what he expected to be a quieter posting in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale — and instead spent nearly three decades investigating murders that dig into the fault lines of small-town and rural England: old grudges, class resentment, and secrets that surface decades later. Peter Robinson wrote Banks as a genuine music and whisky enthusiast whose personal tastes colour the prose, and let his home life evolve in real time across the…

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