Playing with Fire
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 375
- ISBN-13
- 9780330491617
- Type
- novel
About this book
Playing with Fire (2004), 375 pages, is the fourteenth Inspector Banks novel, following The Summer That Never Was and preceding Strange Affair. It carries forward Peter Robinson's signature blend of atmosphere and moral ambiguity, set in and around Eastvale.
Key facts about Playing with Fire
Peter Robinson wrote Playing with Fire, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2004. The book has 375 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780330491617 to find the main one.
Playing with Fire is book 14 of 28 in the Inspector Banks series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Gallows View (1987). Watching the Dark is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 August 2012.
That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Standing in the Shadows is the latest published Peter Robinson book on file, from 2023.
About Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson was a British-Canadian crime novelist best known for the Inspector Alan Banks series, a long-running police procedural set in and around the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. See every Peter Robinson book in order.
Its place in Inspector Banks
Playing with Fire is book 14 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows The Summer That Never Was. It is followed by Strange Affair. See the full Inspector Banks reading order.
Alan Banks left a burnt-out career in the Metropolitan Police for what he expected to be a quieter posting in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale — and instead spent nearly three decades investigating murders that dig into the fault lines of small-town and rural England: old grudges, class resentment, and secrets that surface decades later. Peter Robinson wrote Banks as a genuine music and whisky enthusiast whose personal tastes colour the prose, and let his home life evolve in real time across the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780330491617