Peter Robinson Books In Order
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Gallows View | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Dedicated Man | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Necessary End | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hanging Valley | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Past Reason Hated | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wednesday's Child | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dry Bones That Dream/ Final Account | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Innocent Graves | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Right / Blood at the Root | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In a Dry Season | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold is the Grave | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aftermath | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Summer That Never Was / Close to Home | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Playing with Fire | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Affair | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Piece of My Heart | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Friend of the Devil | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Colors of Darkness | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Boy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Watching the Dark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Revolution | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Abattoir Blues / In the Dark Places | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When the Music's Over | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleeping in the Ground | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Careless Love | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Many Rivers to Cross | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Not Dark Yet | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Standing in the Shadows | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Inspector Banks Short Stories/Novellas
Going Back | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Like a Virgin | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Price of Love: And Other Stories | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blue Christmas | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Walking the Dog | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Rain | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Caedmon's Song / The First Cut | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Cure For Love | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before the Poison | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Not Safe After Dark | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Price of Love: And Other Stories | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Missing in Action | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Birthday Dance | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ferryman's Beautiful Daughter | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cherub Affair | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cornelius Jubb | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic of Your Touch | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fan Mail | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good Partner | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Innocence | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
The Book of Virtue | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Scroll | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pronghorns of the Third Reich | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Acceptable Sacrifice | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Leaves a Bookmark | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Years | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Thing | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Ghosts | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Sonata of the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Final Testament | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rides a Stranger | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What's in a Name? | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
It's in the Book | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nature of My Inheritance | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remaindered | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Compendium of Srem | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gospel of Sheba | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sequel | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of the Lion | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Men | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Queen | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Seven Years | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Condor in the Stacks | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery, Inc. | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Travelling Companion | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haze | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Dames Don't Sing | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hoodoo Harry | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretty Little Box | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hemingway Valise | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Honest Horse Thief | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book Case | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Door | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Granta 2: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Like a Charm | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thou Shalt Not Kill | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Merry Band of Murderers | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Crime Stories | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blue Religion | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Toronto Noir | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Pleasures | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crime Plus Music | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder, They Wrote: Five Bibliomysteries by Edgar Award-Winning Authors | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Early Life
Peter Robinson was born in Britain on March 17, 1950 in Armley, Leeds, and passed in October 2022. Like many great British authors before him, Robinson attended the prestigious University of Leeds. Here he received his bachelors of art in English Literature. After college, he emigrated to Canada in 1974, where he attended the prestigious University of Windsor. There he attained a master’s degree in Creative Writing and English and was fortunate enough to have writer, Joyce Carol Oates has his mentor.
After graduation, Robinson headed to Toronto and received from York University his PhD in English. He served as a professor in multiple colleges in Toronto and served as a Writer-in-Residence for the University-of-Windsor from the year 1992 to 1993. Although a successful author, Robinson still occasionally teaches crime-writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
Peter Robinson’s Career
Peter Robinson is most known for his Inspector Banks series, set in Yorkshire town of Eastvale. His very first-novel, Gallows-View premiered in the year 1987, and introduced the world to Detective-Chief-Inspector-Alan Banks. The novel was a hit, and was one of the nominees for the John-Creasey-Award in the United Kingdom. It has also been nominated as best first-novel award for the Crime-Writers-of-Canada.
A Dedicated Man written in the year 1988 was the next novel in the series and is also nominated for the Crime-Writers-of-Canada award. The next two Inspector Banks novels both received critical acclaim and star rankings in Publishers-Weekly in the United States. The fourth novel in the series, The Hanging Valley, was one of the nominees for an Arthur. Peter Robinson’s fifth novel, Past-Reason-Hated, won the Arthur-Ellis Award in the Best Novel category in 1992.
The sixth book, Wednesday’s Child, was nominated for the Edgar Award, and Final Account (the seventh novel) won an Author’s Award in 1994. Innocent Graves (1996) was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best-mysteries of 1996, and was called the “page-turner of the week” by People Magazine. The tenth novel, In-a-Dry-Season, won the Anthony-and-Barry awards for best-novel. In the year 2001, it won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere award of France, along with Sweden’s Martin-Beck-Award.
Cold-is-the-Grave, marked a turning point in Robinson’s career. The eleventh novel in the series not only won the Arthur-Ellis Award, it has been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award. The twelfth book, Aftermath which was published in the year 2002, ranked in the top ten of the bestsellers lists in both the United Kingdom and Canada. It then moved to number one. Though Peter Robinson is known for his fantastic serial writing, Robinson was also able to published numerous short stories.
His short story, “Innocence”, published in the year 1991 won the CWC-Best Short Story Award. In April 1997, Robinson’s “The Two-Ladies of Rose-Cottage,” appeared in Malice-Domestic-6, and was edited by Anne-Perry. It also garnered the Macavity-Award. In the year 1998, Peter Robinson published his first-collection of short-stories, Not-Safe-After-Dark and Other Stories.
The nineteenth (19th) Inspector-Banks-novel, All the Colous of the Darkness, appeared in Canada in October of 2008, in the United Kingdom in August of 2008, and in the United States in February of 2009. In 2006, Peter Robinson was invited to be a part of the elite organization, The Detection Club in the year 2006. Robinson now spends his days teaching and living in Toronto, Richmond, and North Yorkshire.
The Inspector Banks Series
The series is set in the fictional town of Eastvale in Yorkshire, England. Alan Banks is a former member of the London Metro Police. Detective Inspector Alan Banks leaves London for a more peaceful existence in the Dales. Most of the first twelve (12) novels of the Inspector-Banks-series revolves around crime investigation conducted by Banks.
In the year 1999, Robinson shocked fans with novel, In-a-Dry-Season that focused on the Inspector’s divorce from his wife Sandra, once their children leave the family home. Later novels in the Inspector-Banks-series focus on his romance with Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot. Her first appearance is in the same novel where Inspector-Banks and hi- wife get divorced. She meets him while investigating an accusation of murder by someone in Banks’ team. She later joins his team and the two have an off and on relationship.
Gallows View
Readers are introduced to Inspector Alan Banks. Fresh from the London Metropolitan Police force, DCI Banks investigates a series of incidences in the small town of Eastvale including: a peeping tom, and a possible murder of an elderly woman. In addition to this, Banks has to wrestle with his attraction to young-psychologist, Jenny-Fuller. As tensions mount, the cases come closer and closer to Banks’ family.
A Dedicated Man
The second novel in the Inspector-Banks-series finds Banks investigating the death of a beloved local historian found buried in a wall. He has several suspects, all of whom have their own reasons for wanting the thoughtful historian dead. Meanwhile a young girl, Sally Lumb, is in grave danger because she knows more than what she claims.
Television Adaptations
ITV commissioned the television rights of the novel Aftermath in July of the year 2010. Playing Inspector Banks was the British actor Stephen Tompkinson. On September 27 and October 4 of 2010, the adaptation aired as a two part series. The ratings were very high. As a result, ITV commissioned three more novels: Playing With Fire, Cold-is-the-Grave, and Friend-of-the-Devil. ITV chose to air the three novels as a group of six one hour episodes.
The episodes began airing on September 16, 2011. Peter Robinson was a prolific writer, whose mystery novels have shocked and thrilled reader for decades. Though a Canadian, Robinson was schooled in the English tradition of creative writing. His vivid descriptions, lively characters, and intricate storylines, have made his works a permanent fixture of the English, Canadian, and American literary world. The character of Inspector Banks will be a contribution to the mystery genre for all time.
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I was anxiously waiting a new Inspector Banks book and kept checking to see if there would be one published soon. But when I last looked I was so very sad to hear of his passing. He truly wrote the best novels and I have read everyone.
I don’t know if anyone will see this but I want to pass on my condolences to his wife and family. I hope good memories will help you in this dark time.
It truly will be a loss for all of Peter’s fan. I do see that there is a completed book, so I will look forward to reading it. You know I found that the Banks series continued to be relevant and never disappointed us with clever plots and great character development.
Sincerely,
Bev
Are there plans for a new Inspector Banks book? I’m trying to wait patiently.
But there is an ongoing storyline and I am anxious to see how it develops.
Also any plans for a book tour in southern Ontario?
Thank you in advance,
Bev
After reading/listening to over 20 of the Banks series, I was pretty disappointed at the transformation of the idealized version of Banks from a humanized policeman into a realistic cop in Aftermath. It doesn’t make for an entertainment experience.