PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more.

PETER ROBINSON

Written in Blood with Peter Robinson. November 2, 2018. October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter is guest on the CBS Reality series Written in Blood, which airs on 6 November in the UK, where he discusses the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Elsie Frost. In this new series of Written in Blood, some of the world’s top crime fiction writers

explore the

PETER ROBINSON ON THE WRITE NOW WITH SCRIVENER PODCAST Peter uses Scrivener to write his novels, and he discusses his books, and how he uses Scrivener, on the first episode of the Write Now with Scrivener podcast. Check out Write Now with Scrivener Podcast, Episode No. 1: Peter Robinson, Author of the Alan Banks Crime Fiction Series.

GRAND MASTER

Grand Master. April 29, 2020October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. I’ve been thrilled this week to hear it announced that I have been awarded the Grand Master Award 2020 by the Crime Writers of Canada. This is awarded to a “crime writer with a substantial body of DRY BONES THAT DREAM Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL

UK edition published by Hodder & Stoughton 432 pages, £14.99 (hardcover), £6.99 (paperback) US edition published by William Morrow 384 pages, $24.95 (hardcover) Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat AFTERMATH – 2001 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from (Amazon.com, Amazon UK) "A proven master of the British police procedural, Robinson should find a large market for this gripping, psychologically astute tale." Publishers Weekly starred review Read Peter Robinson's comments of the background of Aftermath Summary One early morning in May, Banks is called to a steep, overgrown street in Leeds, where

PLAYING WITH FIRE

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary Press Reviews Exerpt Mist clung to the blackened ruins of the two barges as Banks, crime scene photographer Peter Darby, SOCO Terry Bradford, and FIO Geoff Hamilton climbed into their protective clothing, having been given the green light to inspect the scene by the station officer, who was officially

PIECE OF MY HEART

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

SLEEPING IN THE GROUND Summary A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

SLEEPING IN THE GROUND Summary A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of CONTACT – PETER ROBINSON Contact. You can send e-mail if you have any questions. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page first to see if your question is there. Name (required) Email (required) BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary 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 PETER ROBINSON’S VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR FOR THE NEW BANKS NOVEL Peter Robinson’s Virtual Book Tour for the New Banks Novel, Not Dark Yet. March 12, 2021. March 12, 2021. ~ Kirk. Since there are no physical events possible right now, Peter has a number of virtual events planned. When more are scheduled, they’ll be added to this list. An evening with Peter Robinson. Harrogate International

Festivals.

STRANGE AFFAIR

She was beyond Newport Pagnell now, and the muggy night air blurred the red tail lights of the cars ahead and the oncoming headlights across the road. She began to feel nervous as she checked her rear-view mirror and saw that the car was still behind her. She pulled over to the outside lane and slowed down. The car, a dark Mondeo,

overtook her.

PETER ROBINSON ON THE WRITE NOW WITH SCRIVENER PODCAST Peter uses Scrivener to write his novels, and he discusses his books, and how he uses Scrivener, on the first episode of the Write Now with Scrivener podcast. Check out Write Now with Scrivener Podcast, Episode No. 1: Peter Robinson, Author of the Alan Banks Crime Fiction Series.

GALLOWS VIEW

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently

moved to the

CAEDMON’S SONG

Burt Heward, Ottawa Citizen. “Caedmon’s Song breaks new ground.Peter Robinson’s control of the intertwining stories is masterful. He brings to the tragedy a cool objectivity and engages the reader in a grip that never relaxes. He is moving into the front rank

of

DRY BONES THAT DREAM Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS One was a little grey-haired old lady. Ought to be ashamed of herself, Trevor thought, a woman of her age squatting down on the grass with a bunch of bloody Marxist homosexual tree-huggers. He looked around for some clue as to why anyone would want to save that particular few acres. The fields belonged to a farmer who had recently been put out

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

CONTACT – PETER ROBINSON Contact. You can send e-mail if you have any questions. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page first to see if your question is there. Name (required) Email (required) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

NOT DARK YET

Summary The investigation into the gruesome murders of Eastvale property developer Connor Clive Blaydon and his factotum Neville Roberts at Blaydon’s luxury home reveals a cache of hidden SD cards that cast the murders in an entirely different light. Instead of showing Blaydon’s murderer, the grainy and blurred footage reveals a

brutal rape.

CONTACT – PETER ROBINSON Contact. You can send e-mail if you have any questions. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page first to see if your question is there. Name (required) Email (required) FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of PETER ROBINSON’S VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR FOR THE NEW BANKS NOVEL Peter Robinson’s Virtual Book Tour for the New Banks Novel, Not Dark Yet. March 12, 2021. March 12, 2021. ~ Kirk. Since there are no physical events possible right now, Peter has a number of virtual events planned. When more are scheduled, they’ll be added to this list. An evening with Peter Robinson. Harrogate International

Festivals.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary 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

STRANGE AFFAIR

She was beyond Newport Pagnell now, and the muggy night air blurred the red tail lights of the cars ahead and the oncoming headlights across the road. She began to feel nervous as she checked her rear-view mirror and saw that the car was still behind her. She pulled over to the outside lane and slowed down. The car, a dark Mondeo,

overtook her.

PIECE OF MY HEART

Chicken Shack – “I’d Rather Go Blind” (The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions) Jethro Tull – “My Sunday Feeling” (This Was) Blind Faith – “Can’t Find My Way Home” (Blind Faith) The Incredible String Band – “Painting Box” (5,000 Spirits Or the Layers of an Onion) Liverpool Scene – “Gliders and Parks”

(Amazing

GALLOWS VIEW

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently

moved to the

CAEDMON’S SONG

Burt Heward, Ottawa Citizen. “Caedmon’s Song breaks new ground.Peter Robinson’s control of the intertwining stories is masterful. He brings to the tragedy a cool objectivity and engages the reader in a grip that never relaxes. He is moving into the front rank

of

DRY BONES THAT DREAM Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask

COLD IS THE GRAVE

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary In recent years, the career of Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has been stalled-and, in fact, very nearly destroyed-by the petty animosities of his politically ambitious senior officer Chief Constable Riddle. But when nude pictures of Riddle's runaway teenage daughter show up on a pornographic Web site, he turns THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Excerpt Trevor Dickinson was hung over and bad-tempered when he turned up for work on Monday morning. His mouth tasted like the bottom of a birdcage, his head was throbbing like the speakers at a heavy metal concert, and his

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

BEFORE THE POISON

Wall Street Journal. Robinson outdoes Daphne du Maurier in creating the proper atmosphere for the imaginative fancies of a grief-stricken man. Winds wail, snows fall and floorboards creak, accompanied by the melancholy strains of the sonata Chris is composing on Grace’s grand piano. But it’s not all shadows on the wall and creepy sound

effects.

PETER ROBINSON

Peter Robinson’s Many Rivers to Cross Book Tour. September 2, 2019October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector

Banks

BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Books by Peter Robinson. Not Dark Yet – 2021. Many Rivers to Cross – 2019. Careless Love – 2018. Sleeping in the Ground – 2017. When the Music’s Over – 2016. No Cure for Love – 2015. Abattoir Blues – 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution – 2013. ABOUT PETER ROBINSON About Peter Robinson. Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES DCI Banks, the Books, and the TV Series. September 30, 2016. October 1, 2020. ~ Kirk. There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the TV

series Fringe.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS No Cure for Love is a non-series novel I wrote in 1994 and published in 1995. For a description of the general storyline, go to the book’s page. Suffice it to say here that the book is set mostly in Los Angeles and features a British actress in a TV crime drama being stalked, and the detective from the LAPD Threat Management Unit who

tries to

BEFORE THE POISON

Wall Street Journal. Robinson outdoes Daphne du Maurier in creating the proper atmosphere for the imaginative fancies of a grief-stricken man. Winds wail, snows fall and floorboards creak, accompanied by the melancholy strains of the sonata Chris is composing on Grace’s grand piano. But it’s not all shadows on the wall and creepy sound

effects.

CONTACT – PETER ROBINSON Contact. You can send e-mail if you have any questions. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page first to see if your question is there. Name (required) Email (required) BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary 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 AFTERMATH – 2001 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from (Amazon.com, Amazon UK) "A proven master of the British police procedural, Robinson should find a large market for this gripping, psychologically astute tale." Publishers Weekly starred review Read Peter Robinson's comments of the background of Aftermath Summary One early morning in May, Banks is called to a steep, overgrown street in Leeds, where

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL

UK edition published by Hodder & Stoughton 432 pages, £14.99 (hardcover), £6.99 (paperback) US edition published by William Morrow 384 pages, $24.95 (hardcover) Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat

GRAND MASTER

Grand Master. April 29, 2020October 1, 2020 ~ Kirk. I’ve been thrilled this week to hear it announced that I have been awarded the Grand Master Award 2020 by the Crime Writers of Canada. This is awarded to a “crime writer with a substantial body of DRY BONES THAT DREAM Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask

INNOCENT GRAVES

The murder terrorises the wealthy enclave of St Mary’s, Eastvale, and because Deborah was the daughter of a prominent industrialist, high-flying new Chief Constable Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle puts pressure on Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his team to catch the killer without delay. And soon, partly thanks to the work of new

boy

THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS One was a little grey-haired old lady. Ought to be ashamed of herself, Trevor thought, a woman of her age squatting down on the grass with a bunch of bloody Marxist homosexual tree-huggers. He looked around for some clue as to why anyone would want to save that particular few acres. The fields belonged to a farmer who had recently been put out SLEEPING IN THE GROUND Summary A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside

PIECE OF MY HEART

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World

PETER ROBINSON

Here’s what the Crime Writes of Canada have to say: Since Peter Robinson’s first mystery, Gallows View, appeared in 1987, his growing readership has eagerly waited for each encounter with Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Not Dark Yet - 2021 Many Rivers to Cross - 2019 Careless Love - 2018 Sleeping in the Ground - 2017 When the Music's Over - 2016 No Cure for Love - 2015 Abattoir Blues - 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution - 2013 Watching the Dark - 2012 Before ABOUT PETER ROBINSON Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a PhD in English at York University. He has NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What do you think about the choices made for the DCI Banks TV series? There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV

BEFORE THE POISON

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary Grace Fox poisoned her husband in January, 1953. Or did she? Though she was tried for murder and subsequently hanged, Grace remained a silent and enigmatic figure to the very end. When Chris Lowndes returns to his native Yorkshire to live in the isolated Kilnsgate House nearly sixty years

PETER ROBINSON

Here’s what the Crime Writes of Canada have to say: Since Peter Robinson’s first mystery, Gallows View, appeared in 1987, his growing readership has eagerly waited for each encounter with Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. BOOKS BY PETER ROBINSON Not Dark Yet - 2021 Many Rivers to Cross - 2019 Careless Love - 2018 Sleeping in the Ground - 2017 When the Music's Over - 2016 No Cure for Love - 2015 Abattoir Blues - 2014 (US title, In the Dark Places) Children of the Revolution - 2013 Watching the Dark - 2012 Before ABOUT PETER ROBINSON Peter Robinson was born in Yorkshire. After getting his BA Honours Degree in English Literature at the University of Leeds, he came to Canada and took his MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor, then a PhD in English at York University. He has NOT DARK YET, THE NEW ALAN BANKS NOVEL The New Alan Banks novel, Not Dark Yet, is due to be published in the UK and the USA on 18th March. Here’s a description along with a first look at the cover . A list of interviews and features — mostly by Zoom or email — will follow soon. "The investigation into the

gruesome

INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS Visit the post for more. PLAYLISTS – PETER ROBINSON If you've read any of the Inspector Banks novels, you know that Peter Robinson likes music. He'll be adding playlists for more of the novels in the future. Click the links below to see playlists for these books: Many Rivers to Cross (Apple Music) Bad Boy (Spotify) All the Colours of Darkness (Spotify) Friend of DCI BANKS, THE BOOKS, AND THE TV SERIES There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV series as parallel universes, rather like those in the BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What do you think about the choices made for the DCI Banks TV series? There have been a number of questions recently regarding differences between the characters of the DCI Banks novels and the TV adaptations. I have come to think of the Banks books and the TV

BEFORE THE POISON

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary Grace Fox poisoned her husband in January, 1953. Or did she? Though she was tried for murder and subsequently hanged, Grace remained a silent and enigmatic figure to the very end. When Chris Lowndes returns to his native Yorkshire to live in the isolated Kilnsgate House nearly sixty years CONTACT – PETER ROBINSON You can send e-mail if you have any questions. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page first to see if your question is

there.

BAD BOY – 2010 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary 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 AFTERMATH – 2001 – PETER ROBINSON Buy from (Amazon.com, Amazon UK) "A proven master of the British police procedural, Robinson should find a large market for this gripping, psychologically astute tale." Publishers Weekly starred review Read Peter Robinson's comments of the background of Aftermath Summary One early morning in May, Banks is called to a steep, overgrown street in Leeds, where DRY BONES THAT DREAM Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One May evening, two masked gunmen tie up Alison Rothwell and her mother, take Keith Rothwell, a local accountant, to the garage of his isolated Yorkshire Dales farmhouse, and blow his head off with a shotgun. Why? This is the question Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has to ask

GRAND MASTER

I’ve been thrilled this week to hear it announced that I have been awarded the Grand Master Award 2020 by the Crime Writers of Canada. This is awarded to a “crime writer with a substantial body of work who has garnered national and international recognition.” There

FRIEND OF THE DEVIL

UK edition published by Hodder & Stoughton 432 pages, £14.99 (hardcover), £6.99 (paperback) US edition published by William Morrow 384 pages, $24.95 (hardcover) Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary One morning in March, on the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea, a woman named Karen Drew is found in her wheelchair with her throat

INNOCENT GRAVES

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary When last seen alive, sixteen-year-old Deborah Harrison was on her way home from school. Her friend Megan thinks she saw the shadowy figure of a man behind Deborah as they waved goodbye on the bridge, but the fog SLEEPING IN THE GROUND Summary A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course. But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Excerpt Trevor Dickinson was hung over and bad-tempered when he turned up for work on Monday morning. His mouth tasted like the bottom of a birdcage, his head was throbbing like the speakers at a heavy metal concert, and his

PIECE OF MY HEART

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon UK. Summary As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World

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PETER ROBINSON’S MANY RIVERS TO CROSS BOOK TOUR September 2, 2019October 3, 2019

~ Kirk

Peter will be embarking on a tour to meet readers and discuss his latest novel, Many Rivers to Cross, from 16 September to 5 October. Here are the dates and venues where you can meet Peter and hear him discuss this latest book, and his Inspector Banks series. MONDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER , 7PM Peter Robinson in Conversation Sheffield Central Library Surrey St, Sheffield S1 1XZ

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TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Leeds 93-97 Albion St, Leeds LS1 5JS

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TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM Peter Robinson in Conversation at Ripon Festival Ripon Spa Hotel, Ripon HG4 2BU

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WEDNESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Northallerton 102 High St, Northallerton DL7 8PP

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WEDNESDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER, 6.30PM Peter Robinson in Conversation York Explore Library Library Square, Museum Street, York YO1 7DS

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THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Yarm 97 High St, Yarm TS15 9BB

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THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER, 7PM Peter Robinson in Conversation at Waterstones Newcastle Emerson Chambers, Blackett St, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7JF

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FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Darlington 1 – 3, Cornmill Centre, Darlington DL1 1LS

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SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER, 4PM Bloody Scotland Festival We Are Detectives with Mike Craven and Mari Hannah Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling FK8 1BD

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MONDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER , 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Perth King Edward Street, Perth PH1 5UK

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MONDAY 23RD SEPTEMBER , 6.30PM Peter Robinson in Conversation at Waterstones Aberdeen 33 Bon-Accord Centre, Aberdeen AB25 1HZ

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TUESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER, 12.30PM Book signing at Waterstones Inverness Eastgate Shopping Centre, 1 Crown Rd, Inverness IV2 3PR

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TUESDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER, 7PM Peter Robinson in Conversation at Elgin Library In association with Waterstones Elgin Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin, IV30 1HS

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WEDNESDAY 2ND OCTOBER, 4.30PM Wigtown Book Festival

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SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER, 7.30PM Ilkley Literature Festival

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MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, DISCOUNTED PRE-ORDERS IN CANADA July 13, 2019July 14, 2019

~ Kirk

A special note for Canadian readers. Many Rivers to Cross has been selected by Indigo as one of their most anticipated forthcoming releases, and as a result of this the book can be pre-ordered at a 40% discount between July 15 and 21. Click this link to pre-order the book

,

which will be released in October in Canada. PETER AT BLOODY SCOTLAND

July 1, 2019

~

Kirk

From Jack Laidlaw to John Rebus, from Jane Tennyson to Harry Bosch, the police detective has long been the dark, beating heart of the crime novel. Plain clothes, plain speaking, plain old brilliant at catching the bad guys, they are what make the genre tick. Mike Craven’s DS Washington Poe is a relative newcomer to the ranks of fictional detectives but his appearance in Black Summer has already seen him hailed as one of the best. Mari Hannah’s DCI David Stone and DS Frankie Oliver form a dream detecting team in The Scandal. Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks may have been promoted to Superintendent in Many Rivers to Cross, but he’s lost none of the brilliance that has endeared him to legions of fans. The event takes place on Saturday 21st September from 5:00

pm – 6:00 pm.

For more information, visit the Bloody Scotland website

.

DECEMBER NEWS

December 13, 2018July 1, 2019

~ Kirk

On a recent trip to the UK, I was fortunate enough to be spend a couple of days revisiting the University of Leeds. I graduated from there in 1974 with my BA in English Literature, so I’ve always felt strong ties. I was also be lucky enough to be there in the days when it was probably the best place in the entire UK to see great bands, and in my time I was able to see Cream (earlier, in 1968, before I was a student there), The Who. The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Wings, Captain Beefheart, Sandy Denny, Leonard Cohen, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, The Incredible String Band, Hawkwind, The Soft Machine and many others. I even managed to do a bit of studying, too! I have many reasons to thank the University of Leeds in addition to the education and the music I got there, not least for taking many boxes of my manuscripts, notebooks and random scribblings and giving them a home in the special collections of the Brotherton Library. I was able to visit the stacks and see the collection on the shelves, all neatly boxed and catalogued. One of the members of the English Department was actually consulting one of my old notebooks for a paper

she was working on.

A few years ago my wife and I were able to set up a scholarship at the university for students from poorer backgrounds wanting to study English, with an interest in writing. Most imaginatively, it’s called the Peter Robinson Scholarship. It’s not a lot, but I call it ‘books and beer money,’ for which I would have been most grateful in my days there. It’s a thrill to have a connection with these students, and this time we were able to have lunch with three of them, past and present, in the Great Hall. (See photograph: L to R, Georgia Hulkes, Dominick O’Key, Me, Eva Liukineviciute.) Georgia is doing her masters, Dominick his PhD, and Eva, a second year student, had just won a university poetry competition, so that was a nice little

extra.

Also, outside the hall, I got to see my Leeds Alumni banner. They’re all around the campus and feature alumni and people connected with Leeds in various walks of life. Among many others, I spotted Mark Knopfler, Mark Gattis and Tony Harrison. So I’m in good company! Finally, here’s wishing you all a Merry Christmas, whether you celebrate it or not, and a Happy New Year, whenever it may begin for

you.

CARELESS LOVE PUBLISHED IN CANADA, ALREADY A BEST SELLER

November 2, 2018

~ Kirk ~ Leave a comment Peter’s latest Inspector Banks novel Careless Love

has been

published in Canada, where it is already a best seller; it’s #2 on the Globe & Mail best seller list

.

Get your copy now!

WRITTEN IN BLOOD WITH PETER ROBINSON

November 2, 2018

~ Kirk

Peter is guest on the CBS Reality series Written in Blood

,

which airs on 6 November in the UK, where he discusses the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Elsie Frost. In this new series of Written in Blood, some of the world’s top crime fiction writers explore the similarities between their work and the grim realities of true crime. Here’s a trailer for the episode:

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October 1, 2018

~ Kirk ~ Leave a comment The recent “Crimes & Ballads” evening with Martin Carthy at the Georgian Theatre in Richmond, part of the local Walking and Books Festival, was a great success. More to the point, we enjoyed ourselves! I read my short story “Enchantress,” which appeared in Martin Edwards’s CWA anthology Deadly Pleasures a couple of years ago, and Martin Carthy added a number of traditional folk songs, then did a solo set during which he performed the wonderful “new” version of “Scarborough Fair” from the latest Gift Band CD Anchor. Here’s a photo by Mark Whyman. If my expression looks odd it’s because I’m trying to smile for the camera while doing a sound

check!

News flash: The second season of “Written in Blood” on CBS Reality (available on Freeview, Sky etc) begins on Tuesday, 16th October. There are six episodes, and in each one a crime writer discusses a true cold case with presenter Simon Toyne. My episode, talking about the 1965 Elsie Frost murder in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, airs on 6th November. Filming took place on location over two very hot days this summer, and if I look hot and sweaty it’s because I was, but notice how cool and elegant Simon looks! Here’s a trailer.

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Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. OUT THIS WEEK: CARELESS LOVE, THE 25TH INSPECTOR BANKS NOVEL

July 23, 2018

~ Kirk ~ Leave a comment Banks and his team find themselves with two suspicious deaths. One involves the apparent suicide of a young local student, whose body is found in an abandoned car on a lonely country road. She didn’t own a car. Didn’t even drive. How did she get there? Where did she die? Who moved her, and why? The other case concerns a man in his sixties found dead in a gully up on the wild moorland. He is wearing an expensive suit and carrying no identification. Post mortem findings indicate that he died from injuries sustained during the fall. But what was he doing up there? And why are there no signs of a car in the vicinity? As the inconsistencies multiply and the mysteries proliferate, Annie’s father’s new partner, Zelda, comes up with a shocking piece of information that alerts Banks and Annie to the return of an old enemy in a new guise. This is someone who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants, and suddenly the stakes are raised and the hunt is on. Available 26 July, 2018 (UK), October 20018 (CA), January 22, 2019 (US). (Buy from Amazon UK ) PETER ROBINSON’S 2018 BOOK TOUR, CELEBRATING THE 25TH INSPECTOR

BANKS NOVEL

June 30, 2018

~ Kirk ~ Leave a comment Peter will be starting his tour to support the 25th Inspector Banks

novel Careless Love

in a few weeks. Here’s the current schedule; more dates may be added, so check back.

FRIDAY 20 JULY

12.00pm: Harrogate Crime Festival Chairing of There’s no Place Like, with Luca Veste (Merseyside), AA Dhand (Bradford), Leye Adenle (Lagos) and Susie Steiner (Cambridge).

SATURDAY 21 JULY

11.00am: Signing at Castle Hill books, 1B Castle Hill, Richmond, DL10

4QP.

7.00pm: White Rose books event, 78-81 Market Pl, Thirsk, YO7 1ET.

SUNDAY 22 JULY

12.30pm Signing at The Little Ripon Bookshop, 13 Westgate, Ripon, HG4

2AT.

3.00pm: Signing at Waterstones York, 15 Coney Street, York, YO1 9QL.

MONDAY 23 JULY

1.00pm: Signing at Waterstones Wakefield, 2 Kirkgate, Wakefield, WF1

1SP.

6.30pm: In Conversation Event at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BW.

TUESDAY 24 JULY

1.00pm: Signing at Simply Books, 228 Moss Ln, Bramhall, Stockport SK7

1BD.

7.00pm: In Conversation event at Waterstones Leeds, 93-97 Albion St,

Leeds, LS1 5JS.

WEDNESDAY JULY 25

12.30pm: Literary Lunch, Venue: Gusto, Dicconson Terrace, Lytham Saint Anne FY8 5JY. Contact: Alison Plackitt, Plackitt & Booth Booksellers

MONDAY AUGUST 6

12.30pm: Signing at Waterstones, 78-80 St Peters Street, Derby DE1

1SR.

7.00pm: Event with Waterstones Nottingham, 1-5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, NG1 2GR.

TUESDAY AUGUST 7

1.00pm: In Conversation with Catherine for Browsers Books at Woodbridge Library, New Street, Woodbridge IP12 1DT. 7.30pm: Event in the Big Barn, Manor Farm Site, Bury St, Ruislip HA4

7SU.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8

12.30pm: Signing at Waterstones Reading, 89 Broad Street, Reading RG1

2AP.

7.00pm: Event at Waterstones,77 High Street, Staines TW18 4PQ.

THURSDAY AUGUST 9

1.00pm: Signing at Waterstones Guildford, 71-73 High St, Guildford,

GU1 3DY.

7.00pm: Tonbridge Library, Avebury Avenue, Tonbridge, TN9 1TGp

SATURDAY AUGUST 11

12.00pm Signing at Waterstones, 102 High Street, Northallerton. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26 Time TBC: Events for the Richmond Festival. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 4.45pm: Solo event at the Morecambe and Vice Festival, Morecambe

Winter Gardens.

SLEEPING IN THE GROUND WINS ARTHUR ELLIS PRIZE FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL

May 29, 2018

~ Kirk ~ Leave a comment Sleeping in the Ground has been awarded the 2018 Arthur Ellis Prize for Best Crime Novel. This award, given by the Crime Writers of Canada, is for excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. This is not the first time that Peter has won this award, and it’s iconic wooden trophy of a hanging man. In 2012, he won Best Crime Novel for Before the Poison

; in

2011 he won Best Novel for Cold is the Grave

; in 1997, he

won Best Novel for Innocent Graves

; and in 1992

he won Best Novel for Past Reason Hated

.

The award is named after the pseudonym used by Canada’s last

hangman.

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