Price of Love and Other Stories - Hardcover

Robinson, Peter

3.81

1,248 ratings by Goodreads

9780771075445: Price of Love and Other Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771075448 ISBN 13: 9780771075445

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2009

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A dozen of the very best mystery stories from crime-fiction’s maestro, including one brand new Inspector Banks story.

Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories.

Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.

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Review:

Outstanding . . . one of the best voices in contemporary fiction (Publishers Weekly)

After 18 tales of the fiendishly good DCI Alan Banks, the bestselling author delves into his leading man's past (Shortlist)

The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series on the market (Stephen King)

Robinson once again puts his skills to work in a police procedural that grips like pliers (Independent on Sunday)

'Outstanding . . . one of the best voices in contemporary crime fiction' (Publishers Weekly)

'A first class storyteller' (shotsmag.co.uk)

'After 18 tales of the fiendishly good DCI Alan Banks, the bestselling author delves into his leading man's past. For die-hard fans [The Price of Love] explains how Banks came to be in Yorkshire and how he got his mysterious scar. For the rest of us, it's the start of a beautiful relationship with the novelists's extensive back catalogue' (Shortlist)

Praise for Piece of My Heart and Friend of the Devil (:)

A police procedural that grips like pliers (Independent on Sunday)

The writing is well up to the author's high standard (The Times)

From the Publisher:

Several of the (poorer) reviews for this book are based on not realising that this is a novella and collection of stories.

The product description, and the blurb printed on the book, make it very clear that it is not a novel:
'In addition to the brand-new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK.'.

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