Past reason hated an Inspector Banks mystery
From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson comes this gripping thriller in the tradition of Louise Penny and Elizabeth George set in a picturesque Yorkshire village during the upcoming Christmas season...but one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner's : Maxwell Macmillan International,
1993.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Series: | Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022. Inspector Banks ;
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| Summary: | From New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson comes this gripping thriller in the tradition of Louise Penny and Elizabeth George set in a picturesque Yorkshire village during the upcoming Christmas season...but one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday. Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal, and secrets were the driving force behind Caroline Hartley's life and death. She was a beautiful enigma, brutally stabbed in her own home three days prior to Christmas. Leaving her past behind for a forbidden love affair, she mystified more than a few. And now she is dead, clothed only in her unshared mysteries and her blood. In this season of giving and forgiving, Banks is eager to absolve the innocent of their sins. But that must wait until the many facets of a perplexing puzzle are exposed and the dark circle of his investigation finally closes and when a killer makes the next move. Past Reason Hated is a relentlessly suspenseful novel that shows why Peter Robinson is one of the world's most acclaimed and popular mystery writers. |
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| Physical Description: | 373 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780062431172 006243117X 0684195291 |
| Author Notes: | 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) |
