Piece of My Heart: a novel by Peter Robinson

Two mysteries for the price of one**** February 10,2007

Piece of My Heart offers you two criminal investigations decades apart. Robinson's familiar Chief Inspector Alan Banks is investigating a murder which occurred in 2005, the stabbing of music journalist Nick Barber who is doing an investigative story on the fading rock band The Mad Hatters. Meanwhile interwoven throughout is a second mystery set in 1969 involving the stabbing of a young woman Linda Lofthouse on the evening of a Mad Hatters concert in the English countryside.Detective Inspector Stanley Chadwick is pursuing that case. He identifies a suspect, lacks conclusive evidence, but does not let that stand in the way of a conviction. Robinson hops back and forth betwen the two time periods as the novel unfolds. Ultimately Banks realizes that the two cases are closely linked and solves them both. An execellent novel by a first-rate writer!