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Picked up at the OBCZ in Salcey Forest.

This collection comprises all of Peter Robinson's short crime tales, including four stories featuring Inspector Banks, a private-eye story set in Florida, and a romantic mystery set in Paris. The modern classic, 'Innocence', won the Crime Writer of Canada's Best Short Story Award. This collection also includes two historical stories.

Whether he writes pure detective stories or heartbreakingly noir tales, Peter Robinson is a thoughtful writer who is one of the crime world's finest stylists.

'Readers who know Robinson only through his Inspector Banks novels are in for a treat' KIRKUS REVIEWS

Hmm, a mixed bag, for me, but I suppose that's to be expected with a collection of short stories. I found The Duke's Wife ridiculous and April in Paris predictable. Others, such as Carrion, had a twist that surprised. The Inspector Banks stories were among the better ones (for me), but even then, they felt incomplete, as though too much was shoe-horned into too few pages.

On the OBCZ bookshelf at the back of the cafe.

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