Playing With Fire
26 August 2011Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
'A writer at the very height of his powers' – Ian Rankin
Playing With Fire is the fourteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from The Summer That Never Was.
In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrowboats catch fire on a dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the...
Details
26 August 2011420 pages
9780330523806Imprint: Pan
Reviews
The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong. -- The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong.Stephen King
Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' leagueThe Times
An award-winning writer with ideas that are imaginative and plots that are refreshingly cliché-freeTime Out
Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader.Independent
