Peter Robinson is the author of 16 Inspector Banks novels. The fifteenth, Strange Affair, was chosen as one of the best books of 2005 by The Globe and Mail, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and January Magazine. He has also published two non-series novels, The First Cut and No Cure for Love, and a collection of short stories called Not Safe After Dark. His novels and short stories have been translated into over 16 languages, and he has won a number of international awards, including the MWA Edgar, the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Martin Beck Award from Sweden, the Danish Crime Academy's Novel of the Year Award, and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He has also won five Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards. The sixteenth Inspector Banks novel is Piece of My Heart.