In Dark Places, Robinson - B

                                               This is the most recent book in the DCI Alan Banks series that I first mentioned here two years ago.  In this one, an EU wide theft system (mostly expensive farm equipment and autos that can be put on a truck and disappeared onto the continent) is at the center of the story. The murder of an underling is the starting point. As discussed previously, it is Banks' skill and charm as well as his supporting cast-Annie Cabot and Winsome Jackman -that makes this series fun. Almost all crime novels set in England and Scandinavia (apparently the only European ones I read) written in the last decade or so deal with criminal transgressions that spread far and wide because of the open borders in the EU. I don't know if that has transformed crime and police work, but it certainly has changed novel writing.