Playing with Fire (Robinson novel)

Playing with Fire is the 14th novel by Yorkshire-born, Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. It was published in 2004, and nominated for that year's Hammett Prize.^[1]

Playing With Fire

Author	Peter Robinson
Language	English
Series	Inspector Alan Banks, #14
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	McClelland & Stewart
Publication date	January 2004
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (Hardback), (Paperback)
ISBN	0-333-98932-5
OCLC	53242464
Preceded by	The Summer That Never Was
Followed by	Strange Affair

Reception

Gary Curtis of The Hamilton Spectator called it a "red-hot scorcher, a BritCrime epic with Peter Banks at his best."^[2] Oline H. Cogdill of the South Florida Sun Sentinel called the novel "crime fiction at its best" and opined that it "shows why Robinson's novel continue to be a pleasure."^[3] Al Hutchison of The Tampa Tribune opined that while the novel "may not quite match up to" In a Dry Season, the tenth novel in the series, as a "literary achievement", there is "no question Robinson is on a winning streak."^[4]