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Friend of the Devil

Friend of the Devil( )
Author: Robinson, Peter
Series title:Inspector Banks Novels Ser.
ISBN:978-0-06-054438-6
Publication Date:Dec 2008
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:William Morrow Paperbacks
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $8.99
Book Description:

Two murders . . . two towns . . .

A woman sits in a wheelchair perched on a cliff high above the sea, her throat slit from ear to ear . . .

In a maze of narrow alleys behind a market square, a teenaged girl has been murdered after a night of drunken revelries with her friends.

A pair of horrific crimes, the first--a seemingly senseless murder of a helpless paraplegic--falls to Inspector Annie Cabbot, on loan to a local police department. The terrible death of...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
Fiction / Crime
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.19 x 6.75 x 1.08 Inches
Book Weight:1 Pounds
Author Biography
Robinson, Peter (Author)
Peter Robinson was born in Castleford, Yorkshire, in 1950. He received a B.A. Honours Degree in English literature from the University of Leeds, moved to Canada, and went on to earn a M.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Windsor and a Ph.D. in English from York University.

His first novel, Gallows View, was published in 1987 and became the first book in the Inspector Banks Mystery series. The most recent book in the series is Not Yet Dark (2021). His other works include Caedmon's Song, No Cure for Love, Not Safe after Dark and Other Stories, Before the Poison, When the Music's Over, and Sleeping in the Ground. He has received numerous awards including the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1992 for Past Reason Hated, and in 2018 for Sleeping in the Ground. He received the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1994 for Final Account.

He has also published many short stories in anthologies and in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, including Innocence, which won the CWC Best Short Story Award, and The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, which won a Macavity Award. He has taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, Ontario, 1992-93.

Peter Robinson, an award-winning author, died on October 4, 2022. He was 72.

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