The Summer That Never Was

The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong – Stephen King, Sunday Times bestselling author of Holly
A powerfully moving work – Ian Rankin, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus novels
Top-notch police procedure – Jeffery Deaver, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme series
Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail – Michael Connelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Lawyer series
An expert plotter with an eye for telling detail * The New York Times *
It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson * The Observer *
Move over Ian Rankin - there’s a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author… Chief Inspector Alan Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction’s new top cop * Independent on Sunday *
The master of the police procedural * Mail on Sunday *
Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers’ league * The Times *
Peter Robinson is a master – Tess Gerritsen, author of the Rizzoli & Isles series
Thrilling-brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced – Louise Penny, author of the Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries series
It demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can’t … A considerable achievement * The Guardian *
Banks’ slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series warmth makes you feel all’s right with the world * S Magazine *

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. Peter has written twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, the most recent of which is Number One bestseller Before the Poison. Peter’s critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

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