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Peter Robinson


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 01, 1950

Died
October 04, 2022

Website

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

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 taught at a number of Toronto community colleges and universities and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, 1992-93.

Series:
* Inspector Banks

Awards:
* Winner of the 1992 Ellis Award for Best Novel.
* Winner of the 1997 Ellis Award for Best Novel.
* Winner of the 2000 Anthony Award for Best Novel.
* Winner of the 2000 Barry Award for Be ...more

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New Covers for Inspector Banks Novels in the UK

In 2025, Pan Macmillan embarked on reissuing Robinson’s celebrated DCI Banks collection, starting with In a Dry Season in March and The Summer That Never Was in August. In the former, DCI Banks investigates old crimes when the remains of a lost village, concealed for over four decades, emerge during an unprecedented drought. In the latter, Banks faces his own history when the body of his childhood

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Gallows View (Inspector Ban...
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“The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition. The last part always irritated Banks: how could a corpse ever be in good physical condition ?”
― Peter Robinson, The Hanging Valley
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“The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.”
― Peter Robinson, Before the Poison
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“Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.”
― Peter Robinson, All the Colours of Darkness
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