Careless Love – 2018

Summary

Banks and his team find themselves with two suspicious deaths. One involves the apparent suicide of a young local student, whose body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn’t own a car. Didn’t even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why?

The other case concerns a man in his sixties found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post mortem findings indicate that he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity?

As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate, Annie’s father’s new partner, Zelda, comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants, and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt is on.

Available 26 July, 2018 (UK), October 20018 (CA), January 22, 2019 (US). (Buy from Amazon UK)

Playlist

“Careless Love” (Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love)
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata (Tabea Zimmermann & Kirill Gerstein)
“Beatrice” (Chet Baker, Live in London)
Fauré: “Après un rêve” (Nicola Benedetti, Fantasie)
Massenet: “Méditation from Thaïs” (Nicola Benedetti, Fantasie)
Vaughan Williams: “The Lark Ascending” (Nicola Benedetti, Fantasie)
Arvo Pärt: “Spiegel im Spiegel” (Nicola Benedetti, Fantasie)
“Powderfinger” (Neil Young, Hitchhiker)
“Legend of a Girl Child Linda” (Donovan, Sunshine Superman)
“Season of the Witch” (Donovan, Sunshine Superman)
“Ask Me No Questions” (Bridget St John, Ask Me No Questions)
“Mona” (Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails)
“Scarlet Begonias” (Grateful Dead, Cornell 5/8/77)
“Morning Dew” (Grateful Dead, Cornell 5/8/77)
“Off Minor” Thelonious Monk, Piano Solo)
“Brand New Day” (P.P. Arnold, The Turning Tide)
“Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” (The Shirelles, She’s So Fine: the Rise of the Girl Groups)
J.S. Bach: French Suite No. 1 in D Minor (Murray Perahia)
“She’s About a Mover” (Sir Douglas Quintet, Mendocino)
“Psychotic Reaction” (Count Five, Jon Savage’s 1966)
“Elusive Butterfly” (Bob Lind, 101 Sixties Hits)
“Pretty Flamingo” (Manfred Mann, 101 Sixties Hits)
Debussy: “Préludes – Book 1 – I. Danseuses de Delphes” (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet)
Duparc” “L’invitation au voyage” (Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton, Voyages)
Fauré: “Chant d’automne” (Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton, Voyages)
“Roadhouse Blues” (The Doors, Live at the Isle of Wight)
“So What?’ (Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour)
“On Green Dolphion Street” (Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour)
“The Maigret Theme” (Joe Loss & His Orchestra, The 1962 British Hit Parade, Part 1)
“Town Without Pity” (Gene Pitney, The 1962 British Hit Parade, Part 1)