All the colours of darkness by Peter Robinson

This week the Library received the most recent Peter Robinson novel, “All the colours of darkness”. Barry Forshaw, from The Independant (UK) reviewed this novel on 13 August this year. He said “Peter Robinson has come up with the perfect solution to this irksome problem. He takes the clashing- male/female-copper motif and shoots it full of adrenalin, always finding some new wrinkle to convince us we are encountering this scenario for the very first time. All the Colours of Darkness, the latest in his sequence featuring DCI Alan Banks and his associate DI Annie Cabbot, is a salutary reminder why readers are so comfortable with the series. It's an old friend, but a friend that can still provoke and pique our attention…. Is it a compliment to say that reading a Peter Robinson novel is like slipping into a well-worn pair of slippers? Certainly, the reader can relax: all the buttons we expect to be pressed will be satisfyingly pushed, and the comforting rituals name-checked by a consummate professional. But Robinson also has a way of undercutting the genre's familiarity. With a deceptively unspectacular language, he sets about the process of unsettling the reader. Robinson also does plotting with unspectacular assurance – the kind of plotting, in fact, that exerts a considerable grip. Just try putting the book down after a chapter or so: you'll have a problem.” http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/all-the-colours-of-darkness-by-peter-robinson-892698.html

Do you have a favourite author; an author whose books are as satisfying for you to read as Peter Robinson clearly is for Barry Forshaw?