Inspector Banks · Book 14
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.
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