The Price of Love: including an original DCI Banks novella

The Price of Love: including an original DCI Banks novella

by PeterRobinson (Author)

Synopsis

When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago. Walking again the narrow alleys and back streets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose. In addition to the brand new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK. The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 320
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 06 Aug 2009

ISBN 10: 0340919523
ISBN 13: 9780340919521

Media Reviews
'The writing is, as always with Robinson, colourful and evocative, and the characters are brilliant in their unpersonable way. This book is a must for Robinson completists, of course, but also for anyone who appreciates good stories well told.' -- Globe and Mail, Canada 'THE PRICE OF LOVE is [Peter Robinson's] second collection of short stories and once again displays his ability to move between different forms of crime fiction writing ... suspenseful ... provides the reader with interesting insights into Banks's early days on the police beat' -- Sunday Canberra Times Praise for Piece of My Heart and Friend of the Devil -- : 'Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league ... PIECE OF MY HEART brilliantly interweaves past and present, providing two strands of tension for the price of one, and further enhancing Alan Banks's reputation as one of crime fiction's most appealing cops.' -- Marcel Berlins, The Times 'Peter Robinson is good at producing ingenious mysteries, and this one does not disappoint' -- Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph 'A police procedural that grips like pliers' -- Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now lives in Canada and Richmond. His bestselling, critically acclaimed Inspector Banks series has won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe.