Books by Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson's new collection, The Returning Sky, carefully sequences the poems written over the four years from the time he left Japan and returned to England, through the global financial crisis, and into our current austerity culture.

In Buried Music, Peter Robinson continues his work of discovering poetry in everyday, anywhere places. It is as if, as Roy Fisher intuited, 'he carries a listening device, alert for the moments when the tectonic plates of mental experience slide quietly one beneath another to create paradoxes and complexities that call for poems to be made.'

While the Western world was declaring war on an abstraction, the author had been drawing up peace terms with a host of them. What came from them were promptly anthologized in "The Boodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations". This work features extended reflections that look out on the world and see a wounded head bandaged in clouds.

Explores the difficulties associated with having your heart in Europe and your life in Japan, across the shadowy terrains of a world grown decidedly more at risk, dangerous, and violent. This work contains poetry that celebrates all it can by means of the poet's rhythm, dexterity, and eye for the energized processes of landscape and atmosphere.

Talks about poetry and sexual violence, the balkanization of the art and ways to resist it, and techniques of poetry and how they engage with the circumstances of life. This book, made up of twelve interviews, also talks of the connections between the author's own poetry, literary criticism, translations, aphoristic writings, and ancillary work.

When attorney Kevin Anderson decides to uproot his family and move them to Holland, he expects a fantastic job prosecuting war criminals at the United Nations Tribunal. But when he gets there, he is thrown into the defense of a notorious Serbian warlord accused of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.Kevin faces a suspicious client, a self-righteous prosecutor, and hostile judges. When his spunky 11 year-old daughter, Ellen, is kidnapped, Kevin is plunged into a battle to win his client's freedom, and to save his daughter's life.As the trial progresses, Kevin fends off not only the prosecution, but the American CIA and forces of the Serbian government, all who have a stake in the outcome. From the bulletproof courtroom to the streets of Sarajevo, Kevin scrambles to find the truth and preserve his integrity.While Kevin is fighting for his client; his daughter is fighting for her life. It all comes down to the verdict. Can Kevin obtain justice for his client --and for his daughter--at the Tribunal?

This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924-86. The first half of the book concentrates on the men's working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees' concerns about old age and retirement.

The thrilling twenty-fourth instalment in Peter Robinson's Number One bestselling Banks Series.

Before you discovered DCI Banks, Dectective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson.As a detective in the LAPD Threat Management Unit, Arvo Hughes has dealt with every kind of stalker there is - and in 1990s Hollywood, he's not short of work.Tasked with finding out who has been sending unsettling anonymous letters to beautiful TV star Sarah Broughton, Arvo expects this case to be nothing out of the ordinary - until the actress discovers a strangely mutilated body left in the sand outside her beach house.Certain that Sarah's stalker must have met her before, Arvo realises his only chance to catch the killer before he gets closer to Sarah is to delve into her past. But nothing is straightforward in this case, and the squeaky-clean star seems to be keeping all memories of a shady history locked away . . .

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The seventeenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesWhen Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case.Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall - until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, one that also involves Banks. Then another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to link the two cases in a bizarre and mysterious way. As Banks and Annie dig into the past to uncover the deeper connections, they find themselves also dealing with the emotional baggage and personal demons of their own relationship. It soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either one might strike again.

The twenty second instalment of the grisly bestselling DCI Banks series. Also an award winning TV series starring Stephen Tompkinson. Two missing boys.A stolen bolt gun.One fatal shot.Three ingredients for murder.Misled from the start, DCI Banks and his team are far from enthusiastic when they're called to investigate the theft of a tractor. But this is no trivial case of rural crime. A blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, two main suspects vanish without a trace, and events take a darkly sinister turn.As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels like the case is coming to a dead end. Until a road accident reveals some alarming evidence, which throws the investigation to a frightening new level.Someone is trying to cover their tracks - someone with very deadly intent . . .'Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation' - The Observer

Peter Robinson's psychological thriller Caedmon's Song follows two characters and their mysterious connection.On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then, slowly and painfully, details reveal themselves - dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her; wisps of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand . . . In another part of England, Martha Browne arrives in Whitby, posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?

Banks is back his twentieth mystery and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case . . .

The Number One bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best NovelAfter years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales.But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his own.He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House, and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn't surprise him that a man died there, sixty years ago.That his wife was convicted of murder.That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .

The nineteenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesWhen Juliet Doyle finds a gun in her daughter's bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is on a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm.No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences, or that the Doyles will not be the only family affected. Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate's boyfriend is attractive, ambitious, and surrounded by an intoxicating air of mystery. He's also very dangerous. When Tracy warns him the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him, and flattered by his attention, she agrees. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion. And on his return, unsuspecting of Tracy's precarious situation, Banks is plunged into his most terrifying, personal case yet.

The sixteenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks series.As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag.She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with - or less regard for - young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters.In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist who was working on a feature about the Mad Hatters for MOJO magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy. Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what hornets' nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up.

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with 5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty more skeletons to come out of the closet . . .

Detectice Chief Inspector Alan Banks karriere har de seneste par år været sat på pause. Den har faktisk næsten været ødelagt af Banks chef, Chief Constable Riddles smålighed og politiske ambitioner. Men da Riddles datter stikker af hjemmefra og da nøgenbilleder af hende dukker op på en porno-hjemmeside beder han Banks om hjælp.Sporet fører først Banks til Soho i London, en bydel fuld af stripklubber og sex-shops. Senere til det dyre Little Venice hvor den 16-årige Emily Riddle bor hos en gangster med forbindelser til rockmusikkens verden. Først nægter Emily at vende hjem, men senere dukker hun forslået op på Banks hotel og beder om hans hjælp. Snart er hun hjemme hos familien i Yorkshire, og Banks arbejde synes at være gjort.Andre opgaver optager Banks. En større omorganisering af Eastvale Regional Headqarters fører Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot tilbage i hans liv. Mens de begynder efterforskningen af mordet på den smudskede småforbryder Charlie Courrage, begås et mord på en natklub i Eastvale. Hurtigt fyldes formiddagsbladene med overskrifter om skandale, sex og korruption på højeste plan. Det iskolde og brutale mord ryster Banks i hans inderste og det ser snart ud til at mordet er forbundet med Charlie Courage-sagen.

En usædvanlig tør sommer udtørrer Thornfield-reservoiret, og frem dukker resterne af Hobb’s End, den lille Yorkshirelandsby, der blev oversvømmet 60 år tidligere. Det samme gør skelettet af en brutalt myrdet kvinde, og kriminalkommisær Alan Banks må nu finde frem til en morder, der har undgået straf i over et halvt århundrede.

En kold januarmorgen kaldes chefkriminalinspektør Alan Banks og kriminalinspektør Annie Cabbot ud til kanalen i Eastvale. To pramme er brændt, og en ung stofmisbruger og en falleret kunstner er omkommet. Noget tyder på, at branden er påsat, men hvorfor skulle de to dø?Banks og Cabbot får travlt med efterforskningen, for mens asken stadig er lun, bliver Eastvale ramt af endnu en gådefuld brand.Peter Robinson er født i Yorkshire i 1950. Han bor nu i Toronto med sin kone. Den internationalt prisbelønnede serie er oversat til 16 sprog.OM BOGENRobinson er en underholdende forfatter, der er god til at formidle stemninger og landskaber, så tågen i Yorkshire kryber helt ind under huden på læseren. "Et spor af ild" er ikke nogen undtagelse: en klassisk, velskrevet krimi af den slags, der er svær at lægge fra sig. - Sus Nørding, Holte Bibliotek

Da to patruljebetjente tiltvinger sig adgang til adressen The Hill 35 efter en anmeldelse om hustruvold, åbenbares et mareridt af grusomheder. For i husets kælder og have befinder sig adskillige mishandlede pigelig i forskellige stadier af forrådnelse. Men er husets mandlige ejer både voldtægtsforbryder og seriemorder? Og er hans unge hustru et uskyldigt offer, uvidende om hans ugerninger? Kriminalkommissær Banks kommer på en af sine sværeste opgaver, da han gennem en kulegravning af fortidige synder rystet må konfrontere alle grader af den menneskelige naturs vrangside. Og før han er færdig, har sagen bragt lemlæstelse og død helt ind i politiets egne rækker."Det er en rystende spændende krimi, der folder sig mere og mere ud til en gruopvækkende historie om meget omfattende psykiske skader af seksuelt misbrug." Per Månson, lektør.