author header

Featured Authors

1
Martha Grimes
(3124)
2
Colin Dexter
(2846)
3
Ruth Rendell
(3217)

Peter Robinson

  PDF Print
Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson - has the following books at our site 

Playing with Fire: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Novels)
Strange Affair: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Mysteries)
Piece of My Heart: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Novels)
The Hanging Valley
Friend of the Devil (Inspector Banks Novels)
Past Reason Hated
All the Colors of Darkness (Inspector Banks Novels)
Wednesday's Child (Inspector Banks Mystery)
Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel (Inspector Banks Novels)
Final Account (Inspector Banks Mysteries)
Children of the Revolution: An Inspector Banks Novel (Inspector Banks Novels)
Innocent Graves
Blood at the Root (Inspector Banks Mysteries)
In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks Novels)
Cold Is the Grave: A Novel of Suspense
Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Mystery
A Necessary End (Inspector Banks, No.3)
A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks Mysteries)
Aftermath: A Novel of Suspense
Close to Home: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Banks Novels)
Sleeping in the Ground
When the Misic's Over
In The Dark Places
Watching the Dark
Abattoir Blues
Careless Love
Many Rivers to Cross
Not Dark Yet

"I'd gotten interested in [Ruth] Rendell and those kind of writers, who were able to take a part of England and create a detective through whose eyes they could examine the area as much as investigate crimes. I think it may have been that I'd not been in Canada very long then, so I was a bit nostalgic -- I wanted to re-create England in my writing. So I invented a large market town in Yorkshire -- a town rather like [Yorkshire's] Richmond. And then came Banks. I wanted a protagonist who was trying to escape the big city, who'd seen it all and was close to burnout, and who thought that maybe a transfer would help him."

More About Peter Robinson

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Sorry, this website uses features that your browser doesn’t support. Upgrade to a newer version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge and you’ll be all set.