All the Colours of Darkness: DCI Banks 18

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Set designer Mark Hardcastle’s hanging in Hindswell Woods certainly looks like a suicide, his only wounds from a noose tied by someone left-handed, like Hardcastle himself.

The apparent murder/suicide of a gay couple looks kind of straightforward, but Banks has a "Othello"-based suspicion; that someone prompted the jealousy that brought the horrible chain of events on. Margaret's married for a start, and Walter's encounter with her husband, Billy, leaves him black and blue. When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier. It’s not an easy read in so much as there’s some graphic descriptions of events and the narrative is very sad.As in Heinlein's 1955 Tunnel in the Sky, the teleporters in All the Colors of Darkness are a bunch of doorways in a Grand Central Terminal-style concourse; the big difference is that while in the Heinlein book teleportation is expensive, here costs are negligible.

Because Yorkshire is Banks' home base, it makes for a dramatic contrast between the innate picturesque beauty of the county and the tough underbelly of the people who live on the housing estates outside the tourist towns, many struggling with the high crime rate and inclement weather. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. It's important for you to know that he "hates wearing a tie, and if he has to wear one, he will knot it loosely and leave his top shirt button undone". for a stand-alone about a police detective, a developmentally delayed boy, and a package everyone in North Dakota wants to grab.

When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack is sent to lead the investigation and bring the boy home.