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Peter Robinson was a Canadian crime writer born in Britain. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks.
He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing. He was the winner of numerous awards in the United States, Britain and Canada. He died in October 2022 aged 72.
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Inspector Banks is at once gruff and longing, intuitive and scientific, reckless and meticulous. Contradictory by definition, this rich character
has propelled his creator, Peter Robinson, to the top of bestseller lists
on both sides on the Atlantic. Now, readers will discover the childhood
experiences that shaped Banks' inherent complexities in Close to Home.
Peter Robinson's first novel, Gallows View, published in 1987,
was short-listed for a best first novel award in Canada and for the John
Creasey Award in the United Kingdom. Since then Robinson has followed with
another 12 novels, leading Banks through the arc of a marriage and
divorce, a successful career in police work, and increasingly dark and
suspenseful cases.
With his most recent novel, Close to Home, readers will delight
in Robinson's ability to capture an era -- the 1960s -- with complete
accuracy, including the sensations, sounds, and subversions that made it
different from any other time in history.
How and when was Detective Inspector Alan Banks born?
In the early 1980s I read a lot of British mysteries featuring a detective
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