Bøger af Peter Robinson

When attorney Kevin Anderson decides to uproot his family and move them to Holland, he expects a fantastic job prosecuting war criminals at the United Nations Tribunal. But when he gets there, he is thrown into the defense of a notorious Serbian warlord accused of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.Kevin faces a suspicious client, a self-righteous prosecutor, and hostile judges. When his spunky 11 year-old daughter, Ellen, is kidnapped, Kevin is plunged into a battle to win his client's freedom, and to save his daughter's life.As the trial progresses, Kevin fends off not only the prosecution, but the American CIA and forces of the Serbian government, all who have a stake in the outcome. From the bulletproof courtroom to the streets of Sarajevo, Kevin scrambles to find the truth and preserve his integrity.While Kevin is fighting for his client; his daughter is fighting for her life. It all comes down to the verdict. Can Kevin obtain justice for his client --and for his daughter--at the Tribunal?

This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924-86. The first half of the book concentrates on the men's working lives, while the second half of the book explores the interviewees' concerns about old age and retirement.

The Sunday Times Number One bestsellerThe new Sunday Times Number One bestselling DCI Banks book by Peter Robinson has the team investigating two highly contemporary crimes - each echoing and illuminating the other.

Before you discovered DCI Banks, Dectective Arvo Hughes was on the case in this vintage standalone crime thriller from Peter Robinson.As a detective in the LAPD Threat Management Unit, Arvo Hughes has dealt with every kind of stalker there is - and in 1990s Hollywood, he's not short of work.Tasked with finding out who has been sending unsettling anonymous letters to beautiful TV star Sarah Broughton, Arvo expects this case to be nothing out of the ordinary - until the actress discovers a strangely mutilated body left in the sand outside her beach house.Certain that Sarah's stalker must have met her before, Arvo realises his only chance to catch the killer before he gets closer to Sarah is to delve into her past. But nothing is straightforward in this case, and the squeaky-clean star seems to be keeping all memories of a shady history locked away . . .

The mining industry could play a key role in Africa's energy sector, since it requires power in large quantity and reliable quality to run its processes. The integration of mining with power system development, with appropriate risk mitigation mechanisms, could bring a win-win solution to utilities, mines, and people at large.

The seventeenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesWhen Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case.Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 19-year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall - until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, one that also involves Banks. Then another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to link the two cases in a bizarre and mysterious way. As Banks and Annie dig into the past to uncover the deeper connections, they find themselves also dealing with the emotional baggage and personal demons of their own relationship. It soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either one might strike again.

The twenty second instalment of the grisly bestselling DCI Banks series. Also an award winning TV series starring Stephen Tompkinson. Two missing boys.A stolen bolt gun.One fatal shot.Three ingredients for murder.Misled from the start, DCI Banks and his team are far from enthusiastic when they're called to investigate the theft of a tractor. But this is no trivial case of rural crime. A blood stain is found in an abandoned hangar, two main suspects vanish without a trace, and events take a darkly sinister turn.As each lead does little to unravel the mystery, Banks feels like the case is coming to a dead end. Until a road accident reveals some alarming evidence, which throws the investigation to a frightening new level.Someone is trying to cover their tracks - someone with very deadly intent . . .'Classic Robinson: labyrinthine plot merged with deft characterisation' - The Observer

Not Safe After Dark is a complete collection of Peter Robinson's short crime tales including four stories featuring Inspector Banks, a private-eye story set in Florida, a romantic Parisian mystery, and the modern classic, 'Innocence' - winner of the Crime Writer of Canada's Best Short Story Award. Whether writing pure detective fiction or heartbreaking noir, Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This anthology explores our hidden paranoia, challenges all that we take for granted and lures us to new, exotic places, only to make us wish that we could run back home.

Peter Robinson's psychological thriller Caedmon's Song follows two characters and their mysterious connection.On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then, slowly and painfully, details reveal themselves - dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her; wisps of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand . . . In another part of England, Martha Browne arrives in Whitby, posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?

Banks is back his twentieth mystery and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case . . .

The new series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic historical works, together with rigorously selected personal narratives never before in print - destined to become classics in their own right.

In February 1994, the Hoover Institution held a conference on Congress, inviting more than two dozen scholars, journalists, and members of Congress to participate in an array of panel discussions. The conference asked, in effect, Is Congress working as it should? If no, how should Congress be reformed? Throughout these panel discussions, five writers noted the principal arguments put forward in each of the panel discussions, then composed essays on particular issues, drawing conclusions from the arguments and presenting their own views. An introduction provides a straightforward description of the conference. In commissioning these essays, the Hoover Institution was engaging in an experiment. The institution hoped that the essays would represent not only a record of the conference but also a provocative contribution to the debate on congressional reform.

The Number One bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best NovelAfter years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales.But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his own.He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House, and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn't surprise him that a man died there, sixty years ago.That his wife was convicted of murder.That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .

The nineteenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesWhen Juliet Doyle finds a gun in her daughter's bedroom, she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice. But Banks is on a much-needed holiday, and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm.No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences, or that the Doyles will not be the only family affected. Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy. Her flatmate's boyfriend is attractive, ambitious, and surrounded by an intoxicating air of mystery. He's also very dangerous. When Tracy warns him the police might be on his tail, he persuades her to go on the run with him, and flattered by his attention, she agrees. Before she knows it, a deadly chase across the country is set in motion. And on his return, unsuspecting of Tracy's precarious situation, Banks is plunged into his most terrifying, personal case yet.

The sixteenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks series.As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag.She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with - or less regard for - young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve, and it looks as if the victim was somehow associated with the up-and-coming psychedelic pastoral band the Mad Hatters.In the present, Inspector Alan Banks is investigating the murder of a freelance music journalist who was working on a feature about the Mad Hatters for MOJO magazine. This is not the first time that the Mad Hatters, now aging rock superstars, have been brushed by tragedy. Banks finds he has to delve into the past to find out exactly what hornets' nest the journalist inadvertently stirred up.

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with 5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty more skeletons to come out of the closet . . .

When DCI Alan Banks arrived in Eastvale his life was every bit as much of a mess as it is now. But he is holding an envelope that could change everything he understood about the events that sent him north twenty years ago.Walking again the narrow alleys and backstreets of his mind, he remembers the seedy Soho nights of his last case - dubious businessmen in dodgy clubs, young girls on the game. And a killer on the loose.In addition to the brand-new novella that fills in the gaps in Banks's life before Yorkshire, Peter Robinson gives us ten more brilliant and eclectic stories that have never before been published in the UK. The Eastvale Ladies' Poker Circle finds that murder may be just another game of risk. Is a suitcase of cash worth a man's head on a plate? And tragedy leads a young boy to learn the price of love . . .

The eighteenth instalment in the Number One bestselling DCI Banks seriesA beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annie's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem. The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe.

Detectice Chief Inspector Alan Banks karriere har de seneste par år været sat på pause. Den har faktisk næsten været ødelagt af Banks chef, Chief Constable Riddles smålighed og politiske ambitioner. Men da Riddles datter stikker af hjemmefra og da nøgenbilleder af hende dukker op på en porno-hjemmeside beder han Banks om hjælp.Sporet fører først Banks til Soho i London, en bydel fuld af stripklubber og sex-shops. Senere til det dyre Little Venice hvor den 16-årige Emily Riddle bor hos en gangster med forbindelser til rockmusikkens verden. Først nægter Emily at vende hjem, men senere dukker hun forslået op på Banks hotel og beder om hans hjælp. Snart er hun hjemme hos familien i Yorkshire, og Banks arbejde synes at være gjort.Andre opgaver optager Banks. En større omorganisering af Eastvale Regional Headqarters fører Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot tilbage i hans liv. Mens de begynder efterforskningen af mordet på den smudskede småforbryder Charlie Courrage, begås et mord på en natklub i Eastvale. Hurtigt fyldes formiddagsbladene med overskrifter om skandale, sex og korruption på højeste plan. Det iskolde og brutale mord ryster Banks i hans inderste og det ser snart ud til at mordet er forbundet med Charlie Courage-sagen.

En usædvanlig tør sommer udtørrer Thornfield-reservoiret, og frem dukker resterne af Hobb’s End, den lille Yorkshirelandsby, der blev oversvømmet 60 år tidligere. Det samme gør skelettet af en brutalt myrdet kvinde, og kriminalkommisær Alan Banks må nu finde frem til en morder, der har undgået straf i over et halvt århundrede.

En kold januarmorgen kaldes chefkriminalinspektør Alan Banks og kriminalinspektør Annie Cabbot ud til kanalen i Eastvale. To pramme er brændt, og en ung stofmisbruger og en falleret kunstner er omkommet. Noget tyder på, at branden er påsat, men hvorfor skulle de to dø? Banks og Cabbot får travlt med efterforskningen, for mens asken stadig er lun, bliver Eastvale ramt af endnu en gådefuld brand. Peter Robinson er født i Yorkshire i 1950. Han bor nu i Toronto med sin kone. Den internationalt prisbelønnede serie er oversat til 16 sprog. OM BOGENRobinson er en underholdende forfatter, der er god til at formidle stemninger og landskaber, så tågen i Yorkshire kryber helt ind under huden på læseren. "Et spor af ild" er ikke nogen undtagelse: en klassisk, velskrevet krimi af den slags, der er svær at lægge fra sig. - Sus Nørding, Holte Bibliotek

Da to patruljebetjente tiltvinger sig adgang til adressen The Hill 35 efter en anmeldelse om hustruvold, åbenbares et mareridt af grusomheder. For i husets kælder og have befinder sig adskillige mishandlede pigelig i forskellige stadier af forrådnelse. Men er husets mandlige ejer både voldtægtsforbryder og seriemorder? Og er hans unge hustru et uskyldigt offer, uvidende om hans ugerninger? Kriminalkommissær Banks kommer på en af sine sværeste opgaver, da han gennem en kulegravning af fortidige synder rystet må konfrontere alle grader af den menneskelige naturs vrangside. Og før han er færdig, har sagen bragt lemlæstelse og død helt ind i politiets egne rækker."Det er en rystende spændende krimi, der folder sig mere og mere ud til en gruopvækkende historie om meget omfattende psykiske skader af seksuelt misbrug." Per Månson, lektør.

Under leg i et udtørret reservoir gør en dreng et chokerende fund. For i ruinerne af Hobb's End, en forlængst glemt landsby, falder han bogstavelig talt over en bunke menneskeknogler. Det bliver hurtigt åbenbart, at liget er et mordoffer fra 2. Verdenskrig. Men hvad skete der i Hobb's End i de mørke krigsår? Og hvorfor er liget så voldsomt tilredt?Kriminalkommissær Banks' tilsyneladende enkle mission - at identificere offeret og dets historie - viser sig snart at blive en kompliceret opgave. For selv den mest idylliske landsby dækker over voldsomme konflikter, og selv de mest anonyme mennesker har lig i lasten.I en tør tid er en historie om skjulte identiteter, svigt og undertrykte frustrationer. Og som i sin afsluttende grusomme tvist afgør, at forbrydelser aldrig forældes.

Skelettet af chefkriminalinspektør Banks’ barndomsven, Graham Marshall, dukker op af mudderet på en byggeplads. Graham forsvandt sporløst 40 år tidligere, og Banks har været tynget af skyld lige siden.Samtidig med, at Banks begynder at grave i fortiden, forsvinder en ung dreng fra sit hjem i Eastvale. Er der en forbindelse? Snart udvikler begge sager sig til at blive langt alvorligere end først antaget, og Banks og hans kolleger vikles ind i et livsfarligt net af alt for nære relationer.   Peter Robinson er født i Castleford, Yorkshire, i 1950 og bor nu i Toronto med sin kone. Hans prisbelønnede romaner om chefkriminalinspektør Alan Banks er blevet oversat til 16 sprog. I serien foreligger på dansk Et spor af ild, Kold er graven (som modtog Det Danske Kriminalakademis Palle Rrosenkrantz-pris 2006), I en tør tid, Efterspil, Alt for tæt på og En personlig sag.

På kanten af en klint, en kølig morgen i marts, bliver Karen Drew fundet i sin kørestol med halsen skåret over. Vicekriminalkommissær Annie Cabbot får besked på at tage sig af sagen. Samme morgen i den nærliggende by Eastvale finder man en 19-årig pige kvalt og voldtaget i en smal gyde. Kriminalkommisær Banks bliver tilkaldt og finder hurtigt flere mistænkte, mens Annie i sin sag er på bar bund. Karen Drew boede på plejehjem, og ingen kendte tilsyneladende til hendes liv, før hun flyttede ind. Da Annie pludselig får et gennembrud i efterforskningen sendes hun i en chokerende retning, og Banks involveres. Mens de to intensiverer efterforskningen og afslører tættere sammenhængetyder alt på , at der er tale om ikke en, men to mordere, og at den ene højst sandsynligt vil slå til igen. OM DJÆVELENS VEN"Hvis du ikke har mødt kriminalkommissær Alan Banks før, så forbered dig på et lynkursus i stram, klar stil og subtil psykologi – og vær på udkig efter uventede drejninger, De vil overraske dig hver gang" – Ian Rankin