Shortlisted for the ITV3 People's Bestseller Dagger 2011.

Number One bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his hand to an atmospheric and suspenseful standalone novel.

Comparison: Peter James, Elizabeth George, Ian Rankin
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Synopsis

Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to Yorkshire with his beloved wife Laura. Now he's back in the Yorkshire Dales, but Laura is dead, and Chris needs to make a new life for himself. The isolated house he buys sight unseen should give him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to work. Kilnsgate House turns out to be rather more than he expected, however. A man died there, sixty years ago. His wife was convicted of murder. And something is pulling Chris deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead ...

Reviews

Praise for Peter Robinson :

'Peter Robinson has for too long, and unfairly, been in the shadow of Ian Rankin; perhaps PIECE OF MY HEART, the latest in the Chief Inspector Banks series, will give him the status he deserves, near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers
league' Marcel Berlins, The Times

'Brilliant! ... Gut-wrenching plotting, alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure.' Jeffery Deaver

'A police procedural that grips like pliers' Independent on Sunday

About the Author

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now lives in Canada. Strange Affair is the fifteenth novel in his bestselling Inspector Banks series. The critically acclaimed series has won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe. Photo by Biserka Livaja More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation