The Summer That Never Was (47 page)
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following people for reading and commenting on the manuscript in its various stages of completion: Dominick Abel, Robert Barnard, Liz Cowen, Dinah Forbes, Trish Grader, Sheila Halladay, Adam Levin, Maria Rejt, Erika Schmid and Anya Serota.
Many people helped with the research and I would like to extend extra special thanks to the following: Margaret Brown, Clare Ellis, Area Commander Philip Gormley, Jenny Mogford of
www.Peterborough.net
, Michelle Spring and Detective Inspector Claire Stevens.
Yorkshire-born Peter Robinson, who now lives in Toronto, is one of the world’s top writers of crime fiction. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his Inspector Banks novels, including the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, the Edgar Award, Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Award, several Arthur Ellis best novel awards, and the Dagger in the Library from the British Crime Writers’ Association.
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
Dead Right
In a Dry Season
Cold Is the Grave
Aftermath
Playing With Fire
Strange Affair
Piece of My Heart
Friend of the Devil
ALSO BY PETER ROBINSON
Caedmon’s Song
No Cure for Love
Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories
Praise for
The Summer That Never Was
“
ENTERTAINING
and
SOPHISTICATED
, crime writing of a high order.”
–
Washington Post
“
A POLISHED
,
SOLIDLY PLOTTED
mystery that juggles its two parallel story lines with remarkable ease–and even offers a dose of insight.”
–Montreal
Gazette
“Stretches the nerve endings and keeps you turning the pages with anticipation.”
–
Punch
“Refreshingly down to earth.”
–
New York Times
“The splendid Peter Robinson strikes
SUSPENSE-GOLD
again.”
–
London Free Press
“Peter Robinson succeeds in brilliantly contrasting the two cases…. Inspector Banks is making a real mark as one of our most thoughtful and interesting detectives.”
–
Sunday Express
“[A] painful but enlightening journey into the past.”
–
New York Times Book Review
“Robinson delivers a
TAUT, TENSE
crime story that will keep you up late flipping pages and guessing right to the end.”
–Hamilton
Spectator
“Like P.D. James, Robinson works on a large, intricately detailed canvas…. This satisfying and subtle police procedural has a little bit of everything.”
–
Publishers Weekly
“
CUNNING
…. Authentic and atmospheric.”
–
The Independent
“
STUNNINGLY COMPLEX
and intricately plotted…entertained me with every twist.”
–Nevada Barr
“Robinson quietly and methodically stretches the boundaries of crime fiction.”
–
National Post
“
EXHILARATING
.”
–
Midwest Book Review
“
ABSORBING
and well paced.”
–
Sunday Telegraph
“A rich and rewarding tale…that shows Robinson at the top of his writing form.”
–Victoria
Times-Colonist
“A well-crafted but sensitive novel.”
–
Scotland on Sunday
“Highly readable…[Robinson is] one of those
FIRST-
CLASS
storytellers.”
–
National Post
“Once again, this author has created a plot that is believable and without trickery, and a set of characters who are consistent and convincing.”
–Halifax
Chronicle-Herald
“Robinson again shows himself to be as astute a writer as P.D. James.”
–
Library Journal
“In giving us this fully fleshed out and flawed hero–and a
GRIPPING, COMPLEX
story–Robinson demonstrates why he is a
MASTER
of the police procedural.”
–
Quill & Quire
Copyright © 2003 by Peter Robinson
Cloth edition published 2003
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-
The summer that never was: an Inspector Banks novel / Peter Robinson.
Originally published: Toronto: M&S, 2003.
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