Not Safe After Dark and A Necessary End - Peter Robinson

NOT SAFE AFTER DARK

Here is the complete collection of Peter Robinson’s short crime tales, including a private-eye story set in Florida, a romantic Parisian mystery, the modern classic ‘Innocence’ – winner of the Crime Writer of Canada’s Best Short Story Award – and the first ever Inspector Banks novella.

This anthology explores our hidden paranoia, challenges all that we take for granted and lures us to new, exotic places, only to wish that we could run back home…

A NECESSARY END

In the usually peaceful town of Eastale, a simmering tension has reached breaking point. An anti-nuclear demonstration has ended in violence, leaving a policeman fatally stabbed. Fired by professional outrage, Superintendent ‘Dirty Dick’ Burgess descends with vengeful fury on the inhabitants of Maggies Farm, an isolated house high on the daleside.

Inspector Alan Banks is uneasy about Burgess’s handling of the investigation. But he has been warned off the case. Soon Banks realizes that the only way he can salvage his career is by beating Burgess to the killer…