Playing With Fire – Peter Robinson
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Title: Playing With Fire
Author: Peter Robinson
Read By: Ron Keith
Copyright: 2004
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Series Name: Inspector Banks
Position in Series: 14
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Total Duration: 14:05:25
Total MP3 Size: 387.76
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Book Description
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One of the principle pleasures to be found in reading any of Peter Robinson’s
more recent British suspense novels is to see how dexterously this author
uses seemingly small, confined crimes to wedge open much larger troves
of hidden or historical chicanery. In Playing with Fire, the plot catalyst
is a blaze that consumes two rotting barges moored in a Yorkshire canal,
killing their squatter inhabitants–Tina Aspern, a pretty, teenage heroin
abuser, and Thomas McMahon, a once-promising but "derivative" landscape
painter who’d fallen on hard times. Accident or arson? The best suspects,
in either event, may be TinaÆs cheating boyfriend, Mark Siddons, and
a rumored peeping tom who’d taken his time–and more–reporting the
conflagration. However, as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and
his colleague and ex-lover, Annie Cabbot (both last seen in Close to
Home), gather together the disparate threads of this case, new questions
arise, suggesting that the inferno was intended to cover up still worse
misdeeds. Why, for instance, had McMahon been buying old books and prints
from an Eastvale antiquarian dealer? Is it true, as an angry Siddons
alleges, that Tina had turned to drugs in order to blot out the pain
of her stepfather’s carnal advances? And what tie, if any, is there
between these boat burnings and the subsequent torching of a trailer
home occupied by a "quiet bloke," who perished while in possession of
an unknown and potentially valuable J.M.W. Turner watercolor?
As attentive as Robinson is to plot progression, spicing up his narrative
with arcane knowledge about fire accelerants and competition in the
painting biz ("The art world’s brutal," Banks is warned early on in
this story), he doesn’t forget that a substantial part of the attraction
of this series derives from its two evolving main characters. The contemplative-
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, jazz-loving Banks, worried by the superficiality of his latest relationship,
with a "wounded" fellow cop, finds himself increasingly jealous here
of Annie’s suave new boyfriend, an art researcher whose past may be
short a few brushstrokes. At the same time, Annie is drawn hesitantly
closer again to Banks by tragic circumstances. Although Robinson’s subplot
about Tina’s sexual violation concludes in a rather B-movieish way,
Playing with Fire is redeemed by its scorching climax and suggestively
ragged denouement. Peter Robinson, together with Ian Rankin, Reginald
Hill, and others, is reinvigorating the British police procedural. –J.
Kingston Pierce
From Publishers Weekly
Edgar winner Robinson’s 14th police procedural to feature Yorkshire
DCI Alan Banks isn’t quite up to the level of last year’s superlative
Close to Home, but it’s nonetheless an engaging pleasure. Three victims
have died in two suspicious fires: Tom McMahon, an eccentric, mostly
unsuccessful local artist; Tina Aspern, a young heroin addict estranged
from an abusive stepfather; and Roland Gardiner, another down-and-out
chap but one who just happens to have a fireproof safe containing a
substantial… read more
Book Description
Fire. It violently destroys futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat,
devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in its
foul wake of ash and debris.
The night sky is ablaze as fire engulfs two barges moored end to end
on a Yorkshire canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human
beings. One was a reclusive and eccentric local artist, the other a
junkie, a sad and damaged young girl.
To the seasoned eye of Inspector Alan Banks, this horror was no accident,
its method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend
could have committed the dark act. And it isn’t long before the fears
of Banks and D.I. Annie Cabbot are brutally confirmed, when another
suspicious blaze incinerates a remote trailer in the countryside . .
. and another solitary life is gruesomely consumed.
But is it the work of a serial arsonist, or an ingeniously conceived
plot to obliterate the trail to other heinous crimes? There are shocking
secrets to be uncovered in the charred wreckage, grim evidence of lethal
greed and twisted hunger, and of nightmare occurrences within the private
confines of family. A terrible suspicion that a killer’s work is not
yet done drives Alan Banks as the hunt intensifies for an elusive, cold-blooded
chameleon who could be anyone and anywhere.
In Playing with Fire, award-winning, internationally bestselling author
Peter Robinson delivers a modern masterwork of suspense that confirms
his standing as one of the brightest literary lights in crime fiction
— a blistering tale of murder and betrayal that is as frightening,
devastating, and hypnotic as flame itself.
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