Peter Robinson

Career Robinson taught at several colleges and universities It garnered him the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, which he went on to win six more times during his career. He also wrote two collections of short stories – Not Safe After Dark (1998) and The Price of Love (2009) – as well as another novel, Caedmon's Song, released in 1990. with his wife, Sheila Halladay, and he occasionally taught crime writing at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. He also taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, 1992–1993.

Awards and honours In 2002 Robison was awarded the Dagger in the Library by the Crime Writers' Association.

In 2020, Robinson received the Grand Master Award from Crime Writers of Canada, and in 2010, he received their Derrick Murdoch Award. Two years prior, he had been honoured with the Toronto Public Library Celebrates Reading Award. 1991 Caedmon's Song (The First Cut) Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Finalist

Final Account Author's Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters 1996 "Carrion" Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story Finalist 1999 Anthony Award for Best Short Story Nominee

Anthony Award for Best Novel Winner Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Finalist Edgar Award for Best Novel Finalist

Cold is the Grave Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Winner Martin Beck Award Winner

Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel Finalist Martin Beck Award Winner Gallows View (1987), A Dedicated Man (1988), A Necessary End (1989), The Hanging Valley (1989), Past Reason Hated (1991), Wednesday's Child (1992), Dry Bones That Dream (1994), (published in the United States as Final Account) Innocent Graves (1996), Dead Right (1997), (published in the United States as Blood at the Root) In a Dry Season (1999), Cold Is the Grave (2000), Aftermath (2001), The Summer that Never Was (2003), (published in the United States as Close to Home) Playing with Fire (2004), Strange Affair (2005), Piece of My Heart (2006), Friend of the Devil (2007), All the Colours of Darkness (2008), Bad Boy (2010), Watching the Dark (2012), Children of the Revolution (2013), Abattoir Blues (2014), (published in the United States as In the Dark Places) When the Music's Over (2016), Sleeping in the Ground (2017), Careless Love (2018), Many Rivers to Cross (2019), Not Dark Yet (2021), Standing in the Shadows (2023),

Other works Although Caedmon's Song is a standalone novella, it is related to Friend of the Devil, which is also related to Aftermath. Caedmon's Song (1990), The First Cut – American edition of Caedmon's Song (1993), No Cure for Love (1995), Not Safe After Dark (Crippen & Landru, 1998 & Macmillan Publishers, 2004), (Short stories; includes three Inspector Banks stories) The Price of Love (2009), (Short stories; includes an Inspector Banks novella and three Banks stories) Before the Poison (2011),