It demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't . . . A considerable achievement
Guardian
Move over Ian Rankin - there's a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author. With <i>Aftermath</i>, Chief Inspector Alan Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction's new top cop
Independent on Sunday
Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league
The Times
The master of the police procedural
Mail on Sunday
Banks' slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series' warmth makes you feel all's right with the world
S Magazine
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Peter Robinson is author of twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, including the Number One bestseller Before The Poison. Peter's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.
Peter's DCI Banks was a major ITV1 drama. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot.
Peter's standalone novel Before the Poison won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and lived between Richmond and Canada. He died in October 2022.