By Peter Robinson
fireplace. It violently destroys futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets and techniques whereas leaving even larger mysteries in its foul wake of ash and particles.
The evening sky is ablaze as hearth engulfs barges moored finish to finish on a Yorkshire canal. On board are the blackened continues to be of 2 humans. One used to be a reclusive and whimsical neighborhood artist, the opposite a junkie, a tragic and broken younger lady.
To the professional eye of Inspector Alan Banks, this horror used to be no twist of fate, its procedure so merciless and calculated that basically the worst kind of fiend may have devoted the darkish act. And it's not lengthy earlier than the fears of Banks and D.I. Annie Cabbot are brutally proven, whilst one other suspicious blaze incinerates a distant trailer within the nation-state . . . and one other solitary existence is gruesomely ate up.
yet is it the paintings of a serial arsonist, or an ingeniously conceived plot to obliterate the path to different heinous crimes? There are stunning secrets and techniques to be exposed within the charred wreckage, grim facts of deadly greed and twisted starvation, and of nightmare occurrences in the deepest confines of kinfolk. A bad suspicion killer's paintings isn't but performed drives Alan Banks because the hunt intensifies for an elusive, cold-blooded chameleon who may be an individual and anyplace.
In fiddling with hearth, award-winning, the world over bestselling writer Peter Robinson promises a contemporary masterwork of suspense that confirms his status as one of many brightest literary lighting in crime fiction -- a blistering story of homicide and betrayal that's as scary, devastating, and hypnotic as flame itself.
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Maybe he was some sort of eccentric. The tortured genius. ” Banks asked. “I don’t. ” “The area looks pretty inaccessible to me,” Banks said. ” “From the towpath,” Hurst said. ” “Did you see anyone that night? ” 30 PETER ROBINSON “No, but I was watching television. ” Hurst frowned for a moment as he thought. “Well,” he said finally, “short of swimming across the canal, which no one in his right mind would want to do, especially at this time of year, I’d say from the lane through the woods directly to the west.
It was too late already. I told you. ” Hurst sat forward, chin jutting aggressively. He PLAYING WITH FIRE 35 looked at Banks. “Look, I don’t know what she’s getting at here, but I—” “It’s simple, really,” said Banks. “DI Cabbot is puzzled why you decided to cycle a mile—slowly—down to the canal branch, when you already knew the boats were on fire and that the wood they were made of was so dry they’d go up in no time. I’m puzzled, too. And I’m also wondering why you didn’t just do what any normal person would have done and call the bloody fire brigade straight away.
Mark came to the pub a few times, at lunchtime, like I said. It was the holiday period, so I was working extra shifts. I liked him. ” She gave Annie a harsh glance. “Maybe he seemed like that on the surface, but underneath, he’s . . ” PLAYING WITH FIRE 41 So cynical so young, Annie thought, but Mandy had a point. Annie thought of Banks. He was a nice bloke, but she had split up with him. Maybe she should have hung on to him instead. He had another girlfriend now, she knew, even though he didn’t like to talk about her.