The Summer That Never Was - The Inspector Banks series (Paperback)

The master of the police procedural - Mail on Sunday

Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the telling detail. - Michael Connelly

Move over Ian Rankin - there's a new gunslinger in town looking to take over your role as top British police procedural author. . . Chief Inspector Alan Banks emerges as a definite contender for fiction's new top cop - Independent on Sunday

Peter Robinson is a master. - Tess Gerritsen

Thrilling-brilliantly plotted, beautifully paced. - Louise Penny

It demonstrates how the crime novel, when done right, can reach parts that other books can't . . . A considerable achievement - Guardian

Near, perhaps even at the top of, the British crime writers' league - The Times

Exemplary - New York Times Book Review

Banks' slow but dogged pursuit of murderers and his meditations on the past make him a figure readers feel they know intimately and trust implicitly and, despite moments of darkness, the series warmth makes you feel all's right with the world. - - S Magazine