A baffling murder on a remote country lane puts Alan Banks and his team to the test in the detectives most intense and gripping case yet from an author hailed by Louise Penny as a writer at the top of his game.With Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigating the young womans 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 its Banks job to discover the shocking truth.As more women step forward with accounts of Caxtons manipulation, Banks must piece together decades-old evidence as the investigation leads him down the darkest of pathsSuspenseful, powerful, and surprising, When the Musics Over is the finest novel to date from one of the foremost suspense writers at work today.
