'The solution to the crime, he had come to believe over the years, more often than not lies in the victim's character." So reflects Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks near the start of "Watching the Dark" (Morrow, 354 page, $25.99), the 20th book in an outstanding series by the English-born author Peter Robinson. Banks is an intellectually inquisitive and highly capable police detective based in the peaceful-seeming Yorkshire region of northern England. When a fellow officer is killed—by crossbow, of all methods—he probes not only the circumstances of the crime at hand but the dead man's past and personality.
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