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Article: Piece of My Heart.(Book review)
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- September 1, 2006
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***1/2 Piece of My Heart A Novel of Suspense By Peter Robinson It's only rock and roll.
Peter Robinson's recurring character Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates the murder of Nick Barber, a music journalist working on an expose of the classic rock band Mad Hatters (a fictitious cross between Spinal Tap and Pink Floyd). That present-day investigation parallels a flashback to 1969, when Stanley Chadwick, Banks's then-counterpart in the force and a critic of the '60s counterculture, investigates the homicide of a young woman during the Brimleigh Festival (think Woodstock). The threads link across time, and the contrast between the social attitudes and the ...