The Price of Love and Other Stories
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Best known — and much admired — for his long-running and bestselling Inspector Banks series, Peter Robinson is also widely and highly praised by mystery mavens for his riveting short stories.
Robinson’s versatile talent is on full display in the twelve stories that comprise his latest short story collection, The Price of Love and Other Stories. Spellbinding plots, suspense that grips and won’t let go, utterly unpredictable twists, psychological truths both sweet and scary, characters you’d like to meet (and some you’d hope never to encounter), all set in places that are characters themselves — these are the fundamentals of story and mystery that Robinson plays like the virtuoso he is.
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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Reviews for The Price of Love and Other Stories
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great short stories and I loved revisiting Banks.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Peter Robinson is one of my favourite mystery authors. His Inspector Banks series now numbers 19! The Price of Love is a collection of short stories released by McClelland and Stewart. When I started to read, I planned to read one or two, put the book down and come back to it -that's the beauty of a short story collection. Unfortunately, this book was like a bag of chips for me - I couldn't read just one or two, but had to finish it off . And it was done too quickly and I wanted more!There are two Banks stories and a novella included. One is a great Christmas tale originally published in a small run of 350 as a gift to a publisher's friends. The novella fills in the Bank's jump from London to Eastvale. As always, the crimes are interesting and well plotted. But it is the character development that makes this series such an addicting read. Banks is human, fallible and it has been fascinating over the years to watch his life unfold.It was intriguing to read stories told in a different voice than Banks. Many were originally published in anthologies Robinson has participated in . There are afternotes at the end explaining the origins of each tale. They range from a WWII soldier falsely accused of murder and the investigator powerless to stop the wheels of justice. Shadows on the Water has a WWII soldiers telling childhood stories while hiding in their trenches. The ending caught me completely unawares. Robinson always includes many references to music in his writing. (Check out the playlists he has compiled for the Banks books) The Magic of Your Touch is a chilling little tale dealing with the songwriting process. One of my favourites was Walking the Dog - a wronged spouse and the revenge they take. All in all, there wasn't one I didn't enjoy!Robinson currently lives in Toronto, Canada and it's always a thrill to read of locales you've visited yourself. College Ave, Danforth and The Beaches provide some of the settings for stories.Robinson is a consummate storyteller. Fans new and old will want to add this one to their collection
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Something of a curate's egg. The title story and the Inspector Banks novella "Like a virgin" are decent crime stories, but the rest of the collection is pretty mediocre. Several of the stories ought to have been buried somewhere and forgotten after their initial magazine publication, especially the opening story, a Yorkshire mockingbird-killer of absolutely leaden obviousness and total absence of period atmosphere. How could any sane publisher include that in a book and put it first where potential buyers would see it...?People keep telling me that Robinson is a great crime writer, but I wouldn't go any further than "competent" on the evidence of the couple of books I've seen so far. He doesn't seem to have any particular quality to his voice or his characters that makes him special. It's just all as bland as Inspector Banks's taste in music. There's no real passion, no irony, no humour. But obviously other readers find something in him. Maybe I'm missing the point somewhere.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A collection of stories by Peter Robinson, some of which are featuring Inspector Banks. I had not heard of this author or his detective before, and although I don't usually enjoy collections of short stories, I enjoyed these well enough. Robinson is good at writing interesting characters, even if it is all a bit darker than I prefer. It is missing the dark humor I enjoy in my mysteries. Also, there was never much mystery for me as to who the bad guy was, but perhaps that isn't the point. Perhaps the point is the journey, as they say. I would recommend it as a good read, but not a book I will read twice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read mainly crime fiction novels but occasionally a short story anthology is brought to my attention by a fellow reader. Short stories often give the reader a different view of a writer's talents. Among my favourite writers who have also produced short stories are Ian Rankin and Ruth Rendell. I cut my teeth on the short stories of Somerset Maugham and Charles Dickens.These eleven stories first appeared in the first decade of the 21st century. Only three of them, one of them a longish novella, feature Robinson's detective Alan Banks. The author says that most of them "were written at the request of one editor or another" and at the end of the anthology he gives detail about what led to the writing of each one. He says that he thinks of the stories as challenges, a chance to explore something he hadn't explored before. He says that he finds short stories difficult to write, and that they often take him into uncharted territory.The story I liked best The Price of Love, the one that gives the anthology its name. Tommy Burford, whose police constable father was recently killed in the line of duty, has discovered something quite strange in the room of Uncle Arthur, his mother's new boyfriend.It is worth it after you finish each story to take a moment to reflect, to ask who in this story, as the subtitle says, paid with his or her life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels.
Ever since the publication of his first mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks, Peter Robinson has been steadily building a reputation for compulsively readable and perceptive novels that probe the dark side of human nature. Plumbing the territory that his work has so successfully staked, The Price of Love and Other Stories includes two novellas and several stories featuring the Yorkshire policeman at his finest. In these stories, the disparate motives that move humans to harm one another, from love and jealousy to greed and despair, are all explored with fascinating depth.
My Review
I enjoyed these 2 novellas and several short stories with themes of love and murder. Lots of twists and turns and unexpected endings. If you like reading the Inspector Banks series, you will enjoy this book. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5These are some of the best short stories I have come across. Extremely well written.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5pretty good stories. early inspector banks drank way too much, cheated on wifey and seems really unhappy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed it almost more than one of the Banks novels. Some nice twists in the end. Also the Banks shorts show him as a bit more rounded, explaining what isn't always apparent in the novels.