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Children of the Revolution

Children of the Revolution Hardcover - 2013

by Robinson, Peter

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771076304 . Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Inspector Alan Banks; 9.06 X 5.98 X 1.42 inches; 387 pages; "A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Banks, much to the chagrin of Detective Chief Superintendent Gervaise, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with the victim going back to the early '70s at the University of Essex, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks suspects that Lady Chalmers is not telling him the whole truth and pushes his inquiries a bit too far, he is brought on the carpet and warned to lay off. He must continue to conduct his investigation surreptitiously, under the radar, with the help of new DC Geraldine Masterson, while DI Annie Cabbot and DS Winsome Jackman continue to rattle skeletons at Eastvale College. When the breakthroughs come, they are not the ones that Banks and his team expected, and everything turns in a different direction, and moves into higher gear." .
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  • Title Children of the Revolution
  • Author Robinson, Peter
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
  • Date 2013
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18495
  • ISBN 9780771076305 / 0771076304
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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From the publisher

Yorkshire-born PETER ROBINSON, a long-time Toronto resident, is one of the world's top writers of crime fiction and a winner of numerous awards, including the Edgar Award; the British Dagger in the Library Award; the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière; the Palle Rosenkrantz Award; and, several Arthur Ellis Awards. In 2010, he was given the Crime Writers of Canada's Derrick Murdoch Award for his outstanding contribution to crime fiction, the Harbourfront Festival Prize for a body of work, and he was also awarded an honorary degree by the University of Windsor. His novels are published around the world and have been translated into nineteen languages. Visit www.inspectorbanks.com. The author lives in Toronto.

Media reviews

Praise for Peter Robinson
 • "One of the grand masters of the genre." - Literary Review
 • "If there were an Order-of-Canada-style process for naming detective thriller writers to Ian Rankin- or Michael Connelly-like status, I would nominate Peter Robinson. . . ." -- Globe and Mail
 • "The Inspector Banks novels are among the best detective fiction in the world." -- Edmonton Journal
 • "Robinson is not just a master storyteller, he's a literary magician." -- Montreal Gazette
 • "Taut; clean writing and subtle psychology. And watch for those twists - they'll get you every time." -- Ian Rankin

About the author

Yorkshire-born PETER ROBINSON, a long-time Toronto resident, is one of the world's top writers of crime fiction and a winner of numerous awards, including the Edgar Award; the British Dagger in the Library Award; the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere; the Palle Rosenkrantz Award; and, several Arthur Ellis Awards. In 2010, he was given the Crime Writers of Canada's Derrick Murdoch Award for his outstanding contribution to crime fiction, the Harbourfront Festival Prize for a body of work, and he was also awarded an honorary degree by the University of Windsor. His novels are published around the world and have been translated into nineteen languages. Visit www.inspectorbanks.com. The author lives in Toronto.