A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detectiveâs most intense and gripping case yet â from an author hailed by Louise Penny as âa writer at the top of his game.â
With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young womanâs death, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Banks finds himself taking on the coldest of cases: a fifty-year-old assault allegedly perpetrated by beloved celebrity Danny Caxton. Now Caxton stands accused at the center of a media storm, and itâs Banksâ job to discover the shocking truth.
As more women step forward with accounts of Caxtonâs manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence â as the investigation leads him down the darkest of pathsâŚ
Suspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Musicâs Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.