There are three things we don't know: How many bodies are buried in the garden of the banal house on an ordinary street in a suburb of Leeds how could any human being commit such horrific acts and what is the role of Lucy, the blond wife. By the end of the first chapter, the serial torturer and murderer of a string of teenage girls is not only revealed, he has been mortally wounded by a female police officer investigating a domestic dispute. In his next, as yet unfinished Inspector Banks mystery, Robinson juxtaposes the unrelated deaths of two adolescent boys, one in the present and one a schoolfriend from Banks's past, to explore the harm that can befall boys who think they know the ways of the adult world.Īftermath, published this month by McClelland & Stewart, begins after the murders have been committed. Innocent Graves, he had a trial scene in the middle of the book, instead of at the end. He's not fussed about solving puzzles and he likes to mess around with the pacing and structure so dear to lovers of traditional mysteries.Ī Dry Season, he inserted a first person narration from the Second World War, and in His home may be in Toronto, but his imagination lives in his native Yorkshire his form is crime fiction, but he keeps pushing against the constraints of the genre. Robinson, who appears at the Vancouver International Writers Festival on Friday and Saturday, doesn't like boundaries in his fiction or his life. Or so I imagine, as I struggle through crosstown traffic. Put out by their non-appearance, he waits for the journalist to poke and prod about his links to Inspector Alan Banks, the beleaguered hero of most of his award-winning crime novels. Dark-eyed and brooding, Peter Robinson looks preoccupied as he nurses a solitary pint at his local on a crisp fall day.Įarlier that morning he had been dislodged from his routine by the expected onslaught of a crew of renovators hired to transform the first floor of his home in the area of Toronto known as the Beaches.
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