Piece of My Heart (47 page)

Yorkshire-born Peter Robinson, who now lives in Toronto, is one of the world’s top writers of crime fiction and the winner of numerous awards, including the United States’ Edgar Award, Britain’s Dagger in the Library, France’s prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Award, and, several times, Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award.

Please visit his website at
www.inspectorbanks.com
.

OTHER INSPECTOR BANKS NOVELS
BY PETER ROBINSON

Gallows View

A Dedicated Man

A Necessary End

The Hanging Valley

Past Reason Hated

Wednesday’s Child

Final Account

Innocent Graves

Blood at the Root

In a Dry Season

Cold Is the Grave

Aftermath

The Summer That Never Was

Playing With Fire

Strange Affair

ALSO BY PETER ROBINSON

Caedmon’s Song

No Cure for Love

Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories

Praise for
Piece of My Heart

“Robinson so perfectly recreates the’60s world of long-haired freaks and hippies, psychedelic drugs and mind-blowing rock ’n’ roll…. Once again, Robinson here elevates the crime novel to its highest form.”

–
Calgary Herald

“
MASTERFUL
…. Robinson has penned a twisting, well-crafted story of two crimes that is both suspenseful and satisfying.”

–
Edmonton Journal

“A
FASCINATING
and atmospheric exploration of the way the past intrudes on the present,
piece of my heart
is rather
BRILLIANT
.”

–
Globe and Mail

“Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps
piece of my heart
, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers’ league.”

–
Times
(London)

“
Piece of My Heart
is Robinson at his best…. It’s clever, very well written, and
A KILLER OF A BOOK
.”

–
Hamilton Spectator

“If Elmore Leonard is the ‘Dickens of Detroit,’…then Peter Robinson is, undeniably, the ‘Tennyson of Toronto.’ Who else but this Canadian crime writer can, like a literary shaman, pull tragedy from a bag and transform it into a good thing–with haunting,
REMARKABLE
murder stories as complex as they are redemptive, as profound as poetic?”

–
Ottawa Citizen

“What is more satisfying than one solid Robinson mystery? Two solid mysteries, expertly entwined, offering twice the usual pleasure.”

–
Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)

“Banks is a great character…. He and his creator Robinson have thoroughly established themselves as among the best writer-character teams on the page anywhere.”

–
London Free Press

“
Piece of My Heart
is vintage Robinson: the story seduces, the detective deduces and the music pleases.”

–
Winnipeg Free Press

“You don’t have to be a mystery fan to get sucked in by Peter Robinson’s
Piece of My Heart
, a police procedural set in a
BRILLIANTLY DETAILED
world of youth culture and rock music.”

–
Newsday
(New York)

“Robinson clearly revels in this foray into the heady ’60s, and his enthusiasm is
INFECTIOUS
.”

–Montreal
Gazette

“Banks is one of the most fully drawn figures in this genre of fiction….
Piece of My Heart
…. makes
INGENIOUS
use of the overlap between crime and rock stardom.”

–
New York Times

“Diamond-hard writing and a subtle treatment of dark psychology.”

–
Crime & Thriller
(U.K.)

“Robinson…. has a knack for storytelling that’s impossible to resist…. He has yet to write a book that’s short of
OUTSTANDING
.”

–
The Province
(Vancouver)

Copyright © 2006 by Eastvale Enterprises Inc.

Cloth edition published 2006

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher–or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency–is an infringement of the copyright law.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Robinson, Peter, 1950-
Piece of my heart : an Inspector Banks novel / Peter Robinson.

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