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Peter Robinson, crime writer whose award-winning DCI Banks novels were unafraid to tackle gritty subjects – obituary
Marcel Berlins in 2005. “Robinson’s (and Banks’s) quiet style has perhaps led to his being underrated; but make no mistake, he’s among the very best. ”Robinson’s fortunes began to turn in 2004 when his new publisher Hodder & Stoughton, who had poached him from Pan Macmillan in a rumoured £1.