- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; 1st edition (7 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333989341
- ISBN-13: 978-0333989340
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 591,570 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'The Banks novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market' Stephen King"
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The breathtaking new Inspector Banks novel, from the bestselling author of PLAYING WITH FIRE
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Banks returns to the smoke,
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This review is from: Strange Affair: The New Inspector Banks Novel (Hardcover)
First of all I should like to warn prospective readers of this fine book that you should read some of his earlier books first because this novel will spoil the plots...I really like the Banks books but this is rather naughty of Mr Robinson to be so indulgent with his other books. Not all of us read these books in the order they were published. So I warn you read these two first: A couple of other points... it is getting a little tiresome having detectives whose family and friends are the subject of the crime. This book deals with some pretty horrendous subjects so it is not for the squeamish. OK Banks has had some real baddies to deal with but this one is especially nasty. Finally, why oh why have they not made Banks novels into TV dramas?
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Inspector Banks is back again!,
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This review is from: Strange Affair : Inspector Banks Novel (Paperback)
I have read all Inspector Banks books and I was truly afraid Peter Robinson had lost the "touch" with his last book, "Playing With Fire", witch I consider not to be one of his best. However, with "Strange Affair" he is back again better than ever and I will rate it among his best three along with "Past Reason Hated" and "Aftermath". The story is gripping and the theme is up to date. Once started I could not put the book down and finished it the same day - A real page turner!
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Banks - now a great series,
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This review is from: Strange Affair : Inspector Banks Novel (Paperback)
I think the Banks books have now got past the stage where you can say such and such a book is "better" or not. They deserve to be taken as a whole - in my opinion, as one of the great series of all detective fiction. Banks has grown, aged and become more serious and more complicated - and so have the puzzles he is faced with. I would recommend new readers not to start with this book - if you have the time, go back to the beginning with Gallows View and proceed from there. The plotting and characterisation in these books seem to me to outrank Ian Rankin and P.D.James - often claimed as reference points - and are well in advance of any other British writer within my experience. The only similarly compelling series I can think of is being produced by Michael Connelly with the Bosch canon, also highly recommended.
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