Strange Affair - Rilegato

Robinson, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0771076088 ISBN 13: 9780771076084

Casa editrice: William Morrow & Co, 2005

Riassunto

When Alan Banks receives a disturbing telephone call from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to search him out. But Roy has vanished into thin air, and now Banks fears this could have been their final conversation. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale. A young woman called Jennifer Clewes has been found dead in her car, and in the back pocket of her jeans, written on a slip of paper, police discover Banks’s name and address.

Living in his brother’s empty, luxurious South Kensington flat, Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew, or even liked. He begins to uncover some troubling surprises, leaving Annie to track down Jennifer Clewes’s friends and colleagues alone. It seems that both trails are leading towards frightening conclusions. And when the cases begin to intersect, the consequences for Banks and Annie become terrifying . . .

Strange Affair is Peter Robinson’s fifteenth Inspector Banks novel, and it amply demonstrates why he’s counted among the top crime fiction writers in the world.

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Recensione:

“I can’t imagine a more flawless police procedural than Strange Affair.... This is a thoroughly modern novel, even though it’s not technical wizardry that allows Banks to solve the crime. Instead, he draws on his peristent willingness to look human nature in the eye unflinchingly.”
–Rosemary Aubert, Globe and Mail

“Peter Robinson takes the straightforward police procedural and transforms it into something approaching art.”
–Calgary Herald

“Moody, atmospheric, exciting and deftly plotted. Another explosive read from Robinson.”
–Hamilton Spectator

“Magical storytelling. What [Peter Robinson] produces here is extraordinary.”
–Ottawa Citizen

“Smart and shapely . . . immaculately constructed.”
— New York Times Book Review

“Superlative. . . . Deeply absorbing.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A damn fine crime novel . . . like a master class in crime fiction.”
— Baltimore Sun

L'autore:

Peter Robinson is the author of the Inspector Banks novels, including Strange Affair, which was chosen as one the best books of 2005 by the Globe and Mail, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and January Magazine, and of two non-series suspense novels, Caedmon’s Song and No Cure for Love. Strange Affair has also been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award for best crime fiction novel. He has also published a collection of short stories called Not Safe After Dark. His novels have been translated into over sixteen languages, and he has won a number of international awards, including the MWA Edgar, the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Martin Beck Award, from Sweden, the Danish Palle Rosenkrantz Award, and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He has also won five Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards.

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• Editore: William Morrow & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0771076088
• ISBN 13: 9780771076084
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336