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.