Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is a Canadian crime writer born in Britain. He is best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He has also published a number of other novels and short stories as well as some poems and two articles on writing.

Here are the 24 DCI Banks stories, plus all three standalone novels and two short story collections. It is the full collection as at 2017.
UK titles listed, and US titles in brackets where different.


1. Gallows View (1987)
2. A Dedicated Man (1988)
3. A Necessary End (1989)
4. The Hanging Valley (1989)
5. Past Reason Hated (1991)
6. Wednesday's Child (1992)
7. Dry Bones that Dream (1994) (US: Final Account)
8. Innocent Graves (1996)
9. Dead Right (1997) (Blood At The Root)
10. In A Dry Season (1999)
11. Cold Is The Grave (2000)
12. Aftermath (2001)
13. The Summer that Never Was (2003) (Close To Home)
14. Playing With Fire (2004)
15. Strange Affair (2005)
16. Piece Of My Heart (2006)
17. Friend of the Devil (2007)
18. All the Colors of Darkness (2008)
19. Bad Boy (2010)
20. Watching the Dark (2012)
21. Children of the Revolution (2013)
22. Abattoir Blues (2014) (In the Dark Places)
23. When the Music's Over (2015)
24. Sleeping in the Ground (2017)

Before the Poison (2011) Novel
Caedmon's Song (1990) aka First Cut (1993) Novel
No Cure for Love (1995) Novel

Not Safe After Dark And Other Stories (1998) Collection
The Price of Love And Other Stories (2009) Collection


Caedmon's Song, also known in the United States and Canada as The First Cut, was Robinson's first novel not to feature Banks. Although seemingly unreleated to the Banks series, Caedmon's Song is revisited in the Banks novel Friend of the Devil, wherein the story is brought together with that from an earlier Banks novel, Aftermath.