Peter Robinson (1) (1950–2022)
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Peter Robinson was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, in 1950. He received a B.A. Honours Degree in English literature from the University of Leeds, moved to Canada, and went on to earn a M.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Windsor and a Ph.D. in English from York University. näytä lisää His first novel, Gallows View, was published in 1987 and became the first book in the Inspector Banks Mystery series. His other works include Caedmon's Song, No Cure for Love, Not Safe after Dark and Other Stories, Before the Poison, and When the Music's Over. He has received several awards including the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1992 for Past Reason Hated and the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1994 for Final Account. He has also published many short stories in anthologies and in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, including Innocence, which won the CWC Best Short Story Award, and The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, which won a Macavity Award. He has taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, Ontario, 1992-93. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Inspector Banks Investigates (The Hanging Valley / Past Reason Hated / Wednesday's Child) (2003) 21 kappaletta
Shadows on the Water 5 kappaletta
The Magic of Your Touch 3 kappaletta
Cornelius Jubb 2 kappaletta
Birthday Dance 1 kappale
Missing In Action 1 kappale
The Wrong Hands 1 kappale
Man Hunt 1 kappale
The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals and the Chase (2008) — Avustaja — 153 kappaletta
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Avustaja — 48 kappaletta
A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (1999) — Avustaja — 45 kappaletta
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Decisive Measures • In a Dry Season • 24 Hours • Nora, Nora (2001) 4 kappaletta
Livros Condensados: Alto Risco | Julia e Romeu | Estação Seca | O Espelho de Prata (2001) 3 kappaletta
DCI Banks: The Complete Series — Original Author — 3 kappaletta
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Vanished Man • Street Boys • The Christmas Train • The Summer That Never Was (2003) 2 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1950-03-17
- Kuolinaika
- 2022-10-04
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Asuinpaikat
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yorkshire, England, UK - Koulutus
- University of Leeds (BA, English Literature)
University of Windsor (MA, English and Creative Writing)
York University (PhD, English) - Ammatit
- crime novelist
- Suhteet
- Oates, Joyce Carol (teacher)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- CWA Dagger in the Library (2002)
- Agentti
- David Grossman (UK)
Dominick Abel (US)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Cold is the Grave (The Inspector Banks series) Tekijä: Peter Robinson
DCI Banks helps the chief constable to track down his teenaged daughter, but a couple of months later her violent death occurs at about the same time as the killing of a local small-time criminal. At first the two deaths seem separate, but soon enough potential connections start emerging.
DCI Banks gets a break from reports, memos, and presentations when the chief constable sends him to investigate a discovery of bones in a village drowned under a reservoir in the 1950s but which has resurfaced because of drought. He and the other police are able to find out quite quickly who the buried person was, but uncovering how she came to be there takes more effort and a bit of good luck too. With the way the book weaves in another narrative, as a reader you know more than the police and keep wondering how they might get there too.… (lisätietoja)
The fact that it's about three weeks since I read this, and I can no longer remember much about it doesn't speak well for this book. However, at the time I did enjoy it. A routine minor crime of a tractor theft soon turns into a thoroughly disturbing double murder hunt. As ever, Robinson evokes well the routine of the detective's life - utter tedium interspersed with moments of danger and excitement, together with a real feeling for the North Yorkshire landscape. It's a good holiday read.
A clever story from Peter Robinson, a stand-alone that's not part of the Inspector Banks series.
Following his wife's painful death, composer Chris Lowndes returns from America to his native Yorkshire, buying, unseen, a rather remote house near Richmond. It turns out to have been the home of Grace Fox, hanged in the 1950s for murdering her husband.
The plot unfolds by the device of interspersing first of all a contemporary description of the trial, and later, Grace's own war time diaries (she was a nurse) with Chris's own tale: he becomes almost obsessive in wishing to discover te 'truth' about Grace's story.
As an investigation into this long-put-to-bed murder, it's involving and interesting. Chris's own developing love affair with Heather, and his detailed summaries of the music he's playing and the wine he's drinking are less so. He seems to have the leisure and the means to follow his whims at a moment's notice, and doesn't come over as a sympathetic person. But it's a good yarn, and one from which I learnt quite a lot about the role of nurses in the Far East during WWII.
A good page-turner.… (lisätietoja)
Following his wife's painful death, composer Chris Lowndes returns from America to his native Yorkshire, buying, unseen, a rather remote house near Richmond. It turns out to have been the home of Grace Fox, hanged in the 1950s for murdering her husband.
The plot unfolds by the device of interspersing first of all a contemporary description of the trial, and later, Grace's own war time diaries (she was a nurse) with Chris's own tale: he becomes almost obsessive in wishing to discover te 'truth' about Grace's story.
As an investigation into this long-put-to-bed murder, it's involving and interesting. Chris's own developing love affair with Heather, and his detailed summaries of the music he's playing and the wine he's drinking are less so. He seems to have the leisure and the means to follow his whims at a moment's notice, and doesn't come over as a sympathetic person. But it's a good yarn, and one from which I learnt quite a lot about the role of nurses in the Far East during WWII.
A good page-turner.… (lisätietoja)
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