Strange Affair - Softcover

Robinson, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060544341 ISBN 13: 9780060544348

Publisher: Avon Books, 2006

Synopsis

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.

A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased--a policeman who has since gone missing.

The dead woman in the car had been running from something--but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior--and former lover--Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope . . . and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.

One of his most, clever, twisting thrillers, Strange Affair attests once again why readers love and can't get enough of Peter Robinson's novels of suspense.

About this title

Review:

"The best Banks book in years."--Winnipeg Sun

Peter Robinson is: "A gifted creator of fully fleshed and vividly present characters."--Boston Globe

"A skillful writer..."--Houston Chronicle

"Remarkable."--Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"Robinson is on a winning streak."--Tampa Tribune

"If you haven't read Robinson .... what on Earth is stopping you? .... A clever and entertaining thriller."--Miami Herald

"Flawless plotting and superbly drawn characters....[Robinson] is a master craftsman."--Tampa Tribune

"Fascinating....Robinson, with his usual deft touch and unblinking eye, brings the story to an unexpectedly gut-wrenching conclusion."--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Superlative...Deeply absorbing...Gripping."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Cunning...authentic and atmospheric."--The Independent (London)

Book Description:

The gripping new Inspector Banks novel from the bestselling author of PLAYING WITH FIRE

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060544341
• ISBN 13: 9780060544348
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 396