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Piece of My HeartI just don’t understand why Peter Robinson’s mysteries don’t seem to be as well known, or popular, as say, Elizabeth George’s books are. Or for that matter, Colin Dexter’s. They sure deserve to be. Robinson’s 14th tautly written, well imagined novel of suspense featuring Chief Detective Inspector Alan Banks is Piece of My Heart. Like all the previous ones, it takes place in and around Yorkshire. Many of Robinson’s mysteries are of the type in which a crime in the present has its roots in the past (these are just the kind of mystery I like best, in fact), and his newest concerns the apparent motiveless death of a rock journalist. There’s a parallel investigation going on, though, of the stabbing death of a young woman at a 1969 rock festival. How these two crimes – which took place almost 40 years apart – are linked, and who’s responsible for each, provides several hours of enjoyable reading. You might want to begin with the first, Gallows View, so that you can follow Banks’s interpersonal relationships as well as the crimes he’s solved.


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Anonymous Peter Robinson' s Mysteries 0 Jul 26 2006, 12:16 AM EDT by Anonymous
 
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Peter is Canadian. Canada does not tend to celebrate its own. All Canadians understand the lack of popularity of its world-class writers, entertainers, athletes, etc. There was a recent article in Quill and Quire in which Peter rues that very situation. What else can I say? It's Canadian, eh?
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