Robert Partridge (writer)
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Robert Partridge (born c. 1954), known also by his pen name Peter Grainger, is an English novelist. He was born in England. He obtained a degree in English literature, and became an English teacher, teaching for twenty years at Cromwell Community College in
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. In 2012 he wrote a novel, ''Afon'', under his real name, with a protagonist named Peter Grainger. He wrote two more novels and a book of short stories but was unable to find a publisher, so he self-published them on Kindle. Partridge began earning about £30 a month from the books, and realized that to earn more he would have to write a series. He chose detective novels, though he had not read any, as he was uninterested in writing romance or fantasy fiction, the two most popular genres. He wrote ''An Accidental Death'' under the pseudonym Peter Grainger; the lead character was D. C. Smith, a police sergeant in King's Lake, a fictionalized version of
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, in
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. He has since published fifteen more books in the series and they have sold well. Almost half a million copies of his work have been sold on Kindle, and in 2016 Tantor Media published audio versions of the books, with
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narrating them. More than half a million copies of the audiobooks have been sold, and as of 2025 the first three were scheduled to be recorded in Swedish. The books have not been published in physical form.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Partridge, Robert English crime fiction writers 1954 births Living people