In 1974 he moved to Canada, to take an MA in English and creative writing at the University of Windsor, Ontario. Newport, Rhode Island Murder at the Elms: A Gilded Newport Mystery Book takes place in another century, but similarities abound with life today in the United States. Smart and dogged police work, mostly by DC Gerry Masterson and DS Winsome Jackman, along with forensic services, reveal a bit more from the few intriguing fragments found with the remains, which along with trawling through missing persons reports gives the team a number of leads to follow, leads which eventually propel them towards Nick’s investigation and an old mystery nobody wants unearthed.

Robinson, who has died aged 72 after a brief illness, first introduced Banks and the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale to the crime-reading world in 1987 with Gallows View. This is a new author for me and I am thrilled to say I loved it and have added all his backlist to my tbr.He claimed it got harder as time went on to maintain the high standard he had established for himself in the series, but it was not noticeable in his output.

The first narrative is a first-person account of a murder committed against the ex-girlfriend of the narrator. He embarks on a career in investigative journalism, determined to find Alice’s murderer—but his obsession leads him down a dangerous path. No matter if you’re new to his work, or a long-standing fan, you will find that this is a novel with great appeal. It drags a lot,the dual timelines contribute nothing and what starts as a puzzle turns into unbelievable scenarios. His ex-girlfriend, Alice Poole, has been found murdered, and her new boyfriend Mark Woodcroft is missing.I received a free copy of, Standing in the Shadows, by Peter Robinson, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. In the realm of crime fiction, the late Peter Robinson has etched his name with a distinction as pronounced as the 27 novels that have preceded his latest creation. This was my first novel in the series by Peter Robinson yet it was so well-written that I felt as if I met these characters before and they already felt like old friends. With each turn of the page, a whirlwind of astonishments awaits, as the story elegantly navigates between the lives of inhabitants dwelling within a bustling student abode and their poignant journey toward academic culmination. The momentum built up nicely during the middle of the novel, but somehow seemed to tail off towards the end and the identity of the skeleton was pretty soon obvious.

Peter Robinson’s Alan Banks police procedurals are character driven with complex plots and an atmospheric location in the Yorkshire Dales. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realises two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has own suspicions as to what might have happened . Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series was made into a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) as Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) as DI Annie Cabbot. English law demands that archeologists be given first crack at ground that is designated for commercial use.Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.