Final Account by Peter Robinson

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 . . .