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The seventeenth installment of the internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series
On a cliff edge overlooking the North Sea, a quadriplegic woman in a wheelchair stares unseeingly at the waves. She had been murdered. And, miles away, in a storeroom in the Maze, a medieval warren of yards and alleys at the heart of Eastvale, Yorkshire, a young woman lies sprawled on a heap of leather scraps. She too has been murdered. Their bodies are discovered at about the same time that DI Annie Cabbot, on secondment to the Eastern Area force, wakes with a severe hangover in the bed of a young man she barely recognizes. From these three strands, Peter Robinson seamlessly weaves a complex and compelling story.
Friend of the Devil is a superb showcase of how deftly Robinson balances horror with humour, police procedures with the nuances of all-too-human emotions, and endings with the promise of new starts. Once again, he transcends the usual limits of the genre in this dazzling novel about the obsessive power of vengeance.
About this Author
PETER ROBINSON was a beloved crime novelist whose work spanned thirty-five years. His final novel, Standing In the Shadows, is the twenty-eighth installment in the Inspector Banks series. His critically acclaimed books have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. He also wrote two collections of short stories, and three stand-alone novels, including the #1 bestseller Before the Poison, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, Sweden's Golden Crowbar Award, and the Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 2020, Robinson was presented with the Grand Master Award by the Crime Writers of Canada. Several Inspector Banks novels have been adapted for television by ITV and have appeared on PBS. Peter, who grew up in the United Kingdom, lived with his wife, Sheila Halladay, in Toronto, Ontario, and Richmond, Yorkshire. Visit www.inspectorbanks.com.
Reviews
Praise for Peter Robinson
"Peter Robinson is a writer I know I can trust. . . . Without writers like him I couldn't do an eighteen-month-long tour."
--Pete Townshend, The Who
"Robinson has kept up an astonishingly high standard . . . make no mistake, he's among the very best."
--The Times (U.K.)
"If Elmore Leonard is the 'Dickens of Detroit,' as the mystery world has long proclaimed, then Peter Robinson is, undeniably, the 'Tennyson of Toronto.' Who else but this Canadian crime writer can, like a literary shaman, pull tragedy from a bag and transform it into a good thing--with haunting, remarkable murder stories as complex as they are redemptive, as profound as poetic?"
--Ottawa Citizen
"A fine series . . . a first-rate writer."
--Washington Post Book World
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