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LOUISE PENNY calls Peter Robinson's new novel In the Dark Places a "thrilling, brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced" read. Available August 11, 2015 -- preorder your copy today! Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when his own daughter...

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Main Author: Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022
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Language:English
Published: 2010.
Series:Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022. Inspector Banks ; 19.
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Banks, Alan > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
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Yorkshire (England) > Fiction.
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Summary:LOUISE PENNY calls Peter Robinson's new novel In the Dark Places a "thrilling, brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced" read. Available August 11, 2015 -- preorder your copy today! Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when his own daughter crosses paths with a psychopath, in Peter Robinson's superb Bad Boy. Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, calls the novels of Peter Robinson, "chilling, evocative, deeply nuanced works of art." Stephen King calls them, "the best series now on the market." If you have not yet discovered this New York Times bestselling crime fiction master and his exceptional detective, now is definitely the time.
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ISBN:9780062008763
Author Notes: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.

His first novel, Gallows View, was published in 1987 and became the first book in the Inspector Banks Mystery series. The most recent book in the series is Not Yet Dark (2021). His other works include Caedmon's Song, No Cure for Love, Not Safe after Dark and Other Stories, Before the Poison, When the Music's Over, and Sleeping in the Ground. He has received numerous awards including the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1992 for Past Reason Hated, and in 2018 for Sleeping in the Ground. He received 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.

Peter Robinson, an award-winning author, died on October 4, 2022. He was 72.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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