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Two Dutch Covers for Inspector Banks

Here are two Dutch covers for Aftermath and Dry Bones that Dream. Peter says, " I think they look very strong, and have a bit of a Scandinavian crime look about them."

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Peter Robinson at Literati Book Club Event, Grosvenor House, London, 6 October

Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel, is delighted to announce that leading author Peter Robinson will be hosting the next Literati – The Grosvenor House Book Club – on Thursday 6th October, 2011. Presenting his new novel, Before the Poison, Peter Robinson, the number one bestselling author of the DCI Banks novels will discuss the inspiration and influences behind his intriguing crime thriller.

The event will take place from 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start, with tickets priced at £20 which includes a copy of the book, welcome drinks and canapés. To book a place please visit the Literati Book Club website, email mailto:literati@marriotthotels.com or call +44 (0) 207 499 6363.

Episode 1 of Friend of the Devil on ITV1 Tonight

Have you watched the two-part adaptation of Playing with Fire on ITV? Well, get ready for another Inspector Banks novel: Friend of the Devil. Again in two parts, it begins tonight on ITV 1, at 9 pm. Don't miss another exciting DCI Banks series.

Episode 2 of Playing with Fire Airs Tonight on ITV1

The second episode of DCI Banks: Playing with Fire airs tonight, in the UK, on ITV1. This exciting drama is based on the Inspector Banks novel of the same name. See this recent post for more on the DCI Banks series.

DCI Banks Series to Air Starting Friday 16 September

The next three DCI Banks TV adaptations are going to air starting Friday 16 September on ITV1. The series lasts for six weeks and comprises three Banks novels: Playing With Fire, Friend of the Devil and Cold is the Grave. Stephen Tompkinson stars as Alan Banks, and Andrea Lowe is Annie Cabbot.

Stephen Tompkinson as Alan Banks

Andrea Lowe as Annie Cabbot

In Playing with Fire, two bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and Banks and DS Annie Cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people.

In Friend of the Devil, a young student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of Yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities.

Cold is the Grave is a case terrifyingly close to home as Banks is asked by his boss, Superintendant Gerry Rydell, to find his missing teenage daughter…

ITV's web site has more about the series, with videos and interviews with cast members.

Trailer for Before the Poison

From Peter's Canadian publisher, here's a trailer for the latest book, Before the Poison.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Hear Peter Talk About Before the Poison on BBC Breakfast Television, 19 August

Note: the date of this broadcast has been changed. We originally posted that it would be the 17th, then it was pushed back to the 18th, and now it's scheduled for the 19th. Let's hope this time it doesn't change again.

Peter will be sitting down with the hosts of BBC Breakfast Television on 19 August, between 8:30 and 9:00 am, to discuss his latest novel, Before the Poison. The book is being released on the 18th, so if you can, listen to Peter talk about it, then get ready to visit your favorite bookstore to buy a copy the next day.

Don't forget to check Peter's book tour schedule to see if he'll be visiting a bookstore near you, so you can meet him and get a signed copy of the book.

Here Peter Talk About Before the Poison on BBC Breakfast Television, 17 August

Peter will be sitting down with the hosts of BBC Breakfast Television on 17 August, between 8:30 and 9:00 am, to discuss his latest novel, Before the Poison. The book is being released on the 18th, so if you can, listen to Peter talk about it, then get ready to visit your favorite bookstore to buy a copy the next day.

Don't forget to check Peter's book tour schedule to see if he'll be visiting a bookstore near you, so you can meet him and get a signed copy of the book.

Peter's Latest Novel: Before the Poison

Now available in the UK; to be release October 4 in Canada, and in February in the US.

Grace Fox poisoned her husband in January, 1953. Or did she? Though she was tried for murder and subsequently hanged, Grace remained a silent and enigmatic figure to the very end.

When Chris Lowe returns to his native Yorkshire to live in the isolated Kilnsgate House nearly sixty years later, in the wake of his wife's untimely death, he wants only to be left alone to compose his piano sonata after years of soul-destroying, though lucrative, work writing film scores. Soon, however, as he learns the troubled history of Kilnsgate, he becomes fascinated by Grace's story. The more he discovers about her life and her work as a Queen Alexandra's nurse during the war, the more certain he becomes that she couldn't have murdered her husband.

As Chris searches for other explanations of what might have happened on that snow-bound January night, through rumours of half-glimpsed figures, mysterious strangers and a missing letter, his quest to prove Grace's innocence becomes entangled with his own need to sift through the ruins and loose ends of his own life in search of some kind of meaning and order, and his new relationship with local estate agent Heather Barlow.

Alternating between a contemporary account of Grace's trial, her wartime journals of Dunkirk, Singapore and Normandy, and Chris's quest for the truth, Before the Poison is a suspenseful exploration of guilt, self-sacrifice and redemption, moving inexorably towards a revelation that, when it is uncovered, will prove shattering and surprising both to Chris and to the reader.

Peter's Next Novel: Before the Poison

Coming August 18 in the UK, October 4 in Canada, and in February in the US.

Grace Fox poisoned her husband in January, 1953. Or did she? Though she was tried for murder and subsequently hanged, Grace remained a silent and enigmatic figure to the very end.

When Chris Lowe returns to his native Yorkshire to live in the isolated Kilnsgate House nearly sixty years later, in the wake of his wife's untimely death, he wants only to be left alone to compose his piano sonata after years of soul-destroying, though lucrative, work writing film scores. Soon, however, as he learns the troubled history of Kilnsgate, he becomes fascinated by Grace's story. The more he discovers about her life and her work as a Queen Alexandra's nurse during the war, the more certain he becomes that she couldn't have murdered her husband.

As Chris searches for other explanations of what might have happened on that snow-bound January night, through rumours of half-glimpsed figures, mysterious strangers and a missing letter, his quest to prove Grace's innocence becomes entangled with his own need to sift through the ruins and loose ends of his own life in search of some kind of meaning and order, and his new relationship with local estate agent Heather Barlow.

Alternating between a contemporary account of Grace's trial, her wartime journals of Dunkirk, Singapore and Normandy, and Chris's quest for the truth, Before the Poison is a suspenseful exploration of guilt, self-sacrifice and redemption, moving inexorably towards a revelation that, when it is uncovered, will prove shattering and surprising both to Chris and to the reader.