DCI Banks 07 Final Account (aka Dry Bones that Dream)

aka Dry Bones That Dream It was 2.47 a.m. when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time. Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and clinically blasted him with a shotgun. Clearly this is a professional hit - but Keith was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he? For the police investigation soon raises more questions than answers. And who, exactly, is Robert Calvert? The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. And when his old sparring partner Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess arrives from Scotland Yard, the case take yet another unexpected twist . . .

there's More Than Blood And Bone Beneath The Skin ...

the Victim, A Nondescript Numbers Cruncher, Died Horribly Just Yards Away From His Terrified Wife And Daughter, Murdered By Men Who Clearly Enjoyed Their Work. The Crime Scene Is One That Could Chill The Blood Of Even The Most Seasoned Police Officer. But The Strange Revelations About An Ordinary Accountant's Extraordinary Secret Life Are What Truly Set Chief Inspector Alan Banks Off — As Lies Breed Further Deceptions And Blood Begets Blood, Unleashing A Policeman's Dark Passions ... And A Violent Rage That, When Freed, Might Be Impossible To Control.

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in The Yorkshire Countryside, Middle-aged Accountant And Financial Consultant Keith Rothwell Is Murdered While His Wife And Daughter Are Forced To Watch. Detective Inspector Alan Banks And His Assistant, Constable Susan Gay, Are The Lead Investigators On The Case. As Banks And Gay Investigate, They Reveal The Victim To Have Been A Conservative, Quiet Man Virtually Devoid Of Personality And Style. But Then A Beautiful Young Musician Sees Rothwell's Picture In The Paper And Reveals That He Had A Secret Life: As Robert Calvert, The Musician's Former Lover. Meanwhile, Rothwell's Financial Dealings Are Coming Into Focus: He Was Skimming From One Of His Clients, A Drug-dealing Caribbean Dictator, And May Have Been Murdered For His Transgressions. The Few Loose Ends To The Case Trouble Banks, And He Pursues Them Until He Draws A Surprising Conclusion. Tremendous Plotting And Solid Characters Make This A Superior British Procedural From The Critically Acclaimed Author Of Wednesday's Child.

Final Account" is the US Title for "Dry Bones That Dream."There's more than blood and bone beneath the skin.The victim, a nondescript "numbers cruncher," died horribly just yards away from his terrified wife and daughter, murdered by men who clearly enjoyed their work. The crime scene is one that could chill the blood of even the most seasoned police officer. But the strange revelations about this ordinary accountant's extraordinary secret life are what truly set Chief Inspector Alan Banks off -- as lies breed further deceptions and blood begets blood, unleashing a policeman's dark passions, and a violent rage that, when freed, might be impossible to control. When a wealthy accountant is brutally murdered in front of his terrified wife and daughter, Inspector Banks teams up with Detective Constable Susan Gay and discovers that the victim, a seemingly quiet family man, had been living a secret double life In Britain, Inspector Banks investigates the death of an accountant executed in a barn on his farm while his wife and daughter were tied in the house. An examination of the victim's books indicates he was laundering money for a foreign dictator. The uniformed constable lifted the tape and waved Detective Chief Inspector Banks through the gate at two forty-seven in the morning.