num_pages: 448
description: 1969... In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a recently concluded rock festival—a beautiful young woman stabbed so savagely through the chest that a piece of her heart was sliced off.Now... A freelance journalist, a stranger to the region, is savagely bludgeoned to death in a shocking act of violence with no apparent motive.Two murders separated by four decades are investigated by two very different but equally haunted investigators—one, a casualty of war unable to come to terms with a confusing new world; the other, a rogue policeman harbouring ghosts of his own. But the truth behind a grisly present-day slaying may somehow be hidden in the amplified, drug-induced fog of a notorious past, propelling Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks into the darkest shadows of the peace, love, and rock 'n' roll generation.
language: English
title: Piece of My Heart
titlecomplete: Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)
characters: Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks
genres: Crime, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Banks, Fiction, Detective, Canada, Mystery, British Literature
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: William Morrow Paperbacks