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Title: Cold Is the Grave : A Novel of Suspense by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0-380-80935-4 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Page Turner
Comment: Cold is the Grave
Peter Robinson
2000 Viking 454 pages ISBN 0-670-83901-3
A teenager from the Yorkshire Dales runs away to London and falls into bad company - not much new in that. But when Peter Robinson uses it as an introduction to one of his chilling mysteries you have a plot has surprising but logical twists and turns and the tale becomes more intriguing by the page.
The writer manages to create strong, realistic characters that stay in your mind long after you've finished the book. When you pick up another book in the series you meet them again like old friends. The characters carry the plot, complex as it is, and all the sub-plots as the reader is shown the truth behind the veneer of the successful Chief Constable and his lovely family.
This was a book I hated to put down. It is well-paced and carefully structured and both male and female characters are so true that you'd swear you met them just last week. It's rare that a male writer can make female characters seem true to life, especially in their internal monologues (and vice versa - female writers often don't present the male interior monologue well) but this writer is spot on.
This book is a real treat from an accomplished mystery writer. Long may the series last.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not His Best, But Entertaining...
Comment: I've enjoyed several of the Inspector Banks series, and I felt that this one had something lacking. While I always enjoy the stories, this one dragged in the middle. Peter Robinson did finish the story strongly, and I had no idea "whodunnit" until the very end.
If you're an Inspector Banks fan, I'd defiitely read it. If you're new to this author, start at the beginning with "Gallows View", or read his best, "In A Dry Season".
Rating: 4
Summary: Cold Is The Grave... But Excellent Is This Book
Comment: After a long quarantine, Inspector Banks has finally a new, officious, job: finding his chief's gone daughter. The girl in question appeared nude on a porn website, and father worries for both her... and his own reputation. Despite his low esteem for his superior, Banks does his job and brings the girl home. But case is far from being closed.
I was not very enthusiastic about my first meeting with Banks, "In A Dry Season", but this one is a gem. Plot is an impressive piece of work, with seemingly non-related events and information slowly converging to form an amazing big picture. Robinson, though, never loses sight of his characters, starting of course with his heroical anti-hero. The main protagonist, however, might be fate that leads a respectable (well, seemingly respectable) family to ruin and tragedy because of a mistake made a long time ago. Past and the way it influences present - for the worse - is a recurring theme to Robinson, handled here with a high emotional power.
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Title: Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0380794764 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Aftermath : A Novel of Suspense by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0380811812 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Necessary End by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0380719460 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0380716453 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery by Peter Robinson ISBN: 0380733285 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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