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    Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
    Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
    Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
    Audiobook14 hours

    Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories

    Written by Peter Robinson

    Narrated by Simon Prebble, James Patrick Cronin, Faye Adele and James Langton

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    About this audiobook

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Sleeping in the Ground comes this brilliantly nuanced short story collection of twenty stories—most never before published in the US, and one of them an Edgar winner—which also features three Inspector Banks tales.

    Peter Robinson pens thrilling tales rich with keen observations, pitch perfect dialogue, and shocking plot twists that have fascinated readers all over the world and made him one of the greatest suspense novelists alive. His acclaimed novels featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks rank among the most celebrated police procedural series in modern fiction. In Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories, Robinson showcases once again his extraordinary talents with a collection of twenty stories, including three featuring Inspector Banks.

    In “Going Back”, Inspector Banks’ trip to celebrate his parents’ Golden Anniversary reveals how evil can wear many disguises. In the Edgar Award-winning “Missing in Action”, the disappearance of a young boy in the early days of WWII sparks a mob mentality with chilling results. “Innocence” captures the desperate plight of a man trapped by a set of coincidences that derail his life and lead him down a path he was destined to travel. The title story, Not Safe After Dark, is an exhilarating tale with a sudden conclusion that will leave readers’ hearts pounding.

    Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories deftly explores the darkest edges of humanity in which everyday people must commit desperate acts as they face fear, temptation, and impulses too irresistible to control.

    “American readers who know Robinson only through his nine Inspector Banks novels are in for a treat. . . . The finish throughout is faultless.”—Kirkus Reviews

    Publisher's note: Peter Robinson is both a widely acclaimed and internationally bestselling novelist and an Edgar-winning author of short stories. This special edition of Not Safe After Dark collects 20 of his finest short stories -- previously published in different editions under the same title, but never before available in its entirety in the US. The new Not Safe After Dark is a publication to be celebrated by Robinson fans and newcomers alike.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9780062791689
    Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
    Author

    Peter Robinson

    Peter Robinson's DCI Banks became a major ITV1 drama starring Stephen Tompkinson as Inspector Banks and Andrea Lowe as DI Annie Cabbot. Peter's standalone novel Before the Poison won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award. His critically acclaimed DCI Banks novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world. In 2020 Peter was made a Grand Master by the Crime Writers of Canada. Peter grew up in Yorkshire, and divided his time between Richmond, UK, and Canada until his death in 2022.

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    • 5/5
      A great group of short stories by a mystery writing master;
    • 3/5
      "Not Safe After Dark" is a collection of 20 short stories, three of them Banks stories and one of them a novella. Some of the stories were good and a few were better. The story I liked the best was 'Carrion'. Took me in, hook, line and sinker. The novella I had read as a stand alone story and it was also included in another short story collection. Gave it three stars.
    • 4/5
      Disclaimer: I received a copy from the publisher for review.This is a collection of stories about murder. There were several Inspector Banks stories but the majority were not related to that character. Overall, it was a very enjoyable read.
    • 3/5
      There is more than one version of this collection and I read the original edition that my library had. There are 13 stories first published between 1989 and 1998, many in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. These are crime stories, murder mysteries, and for the most part I didn't enjoy them. The ick factor is a little too high for me in a couple of these stories. There were a couple I thought pretty good but my overall impression was that these are not stories I want to read. I very rarely read stories of this type so I have no way of judging whether these are better or worse than the usual.The last story, "In Flanders Field" was my favorite of the collection I'd say, and it was newly written for this book. I also really liked the Thomas Hardy inspired "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage." For my tastes the subject matter and story quality improved greatly as we moved from early stories to later ones. The sex crimes at the start of the collection put me off.
    • 3/5
      As a big Inspector Banks fan I approached this book with a little trepidation. Peter Robinson however has written some excellent stories, the majority with a real edge. The Inspector Banks novella was definitely worth waiting for with Banks revisiting his youth. He discovered girls in 1967, the same year as me and listened to the same music, watched the same films and was part of the same exciting times. He weaved a clever little story which probably wouldn't mean a lot to non-fans but I loved it
    • 4/5
      This is the first of two short story collections by this author. Albeit it is less successful than the later one,it still has some gems within its pages.My favourites are 'The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage' and 'In Flanders Fields'. Both of these are unusual and atmospheric stories which are well worth reading.Most of the others are well written but ordinary,and one or two are so depressing,that one feels that they would have been better left unwritten and unread.