Playing with Fire (Robinson novel)

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Playing With Fire
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Author Peter Robinson
LanguageEnglish
Series Inspector Alan Banks, #14
Genre Crime novel
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Publication date
January 2004
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (Hardback), (Paperback)
ISBN 0-333-98932-5
OCLC 53242464
Preceded by The Summer That Never Was  
Followed by Strange Affair  

Playing with Fire is the 14th novel by Yorkshire-born, Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. It was published in 2004 and nominated for that year's Hammett Prize. [1]

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Reception

Gary Curtis of The Hamilton Spectator called it a "red-hot scorcher, a BritCrime epic with Peter Banks at his best." [2] Oline H. Cogdill of the South Florida Sun Sentinel called the novel "crime fiction at its best" and opined that it "shows why Robinson's novel continue to be a pleasure." [3] Al Hutchison of The Tampa Tribune opined that while the novel "may not quite match up to" In a Dry Season , the tenth novel in the series, as a "literary achievement", there is "no question Robinson is on a winning streak." [4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Hammett Prize: Past Winners, Nominees, and Judges". www.crimewritersna.org. International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
  2. ↑ Curtis, Gary (6 March 2004). "A smouldering Brit crime epic". The Hamilton Spectator . Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Cogdill, Oline H. (4 April 2004). "Fired up by fraud". South Florida Sun Sentinel . Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ↑ Hutchison, Al (25 January 2004). "Art Forgery Emerges From Embers". The Tampa Tribune . Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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