num_pages: 530
description: At first, she appeared to be a remnant of the Festival: a beautiful girl with a painted cornflower blooming on her cheek, sleeping off the excess of the night before. It's the summer of 1969 but it seems not all the revellers had peace and love on their minds.Four decades on, Chief Inspector Banks is called from his dinner to a far bloodier scene. A stranger has been murdered in a remote village, and before Banks can begin to uncover the motive he must first identify the body. Nothing is straightforward in this case, and soon he is on a path of discovery that leads back into the past: to a murder in the summer of 1969 that everyone had thought long solved...
language: English
title: Piece of My Heart
titlecomplete: Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)
characters: Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Banks, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 6077
places: United Kingdom
series: Inspector Banks
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton