Gallows View: The first novel in the number one bestselling Inspector Banks series (The Inspector Banks series, 1)

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Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a big-city detective newly arrived in the Yorkshire town of Eastvale, is suddenly confronted with a minor crime wave.

Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life. Solidly constructed and with some acute insights into the psychology of adolescent viciousness and middle-aged lust–a remarkable first novel which should have many successes.

Assigned to assist DCI Banks is Professional Standards Inspector Joanna Passero, and as the investigation progresses, they uncover a link with a cold case that takes them to Tallinn, Estonia to unearth the truth. The first series aired in Autumn 2011 with an adaptation of Friend of the Devil; the second in Autumn 2012, and the third in February 2014. Winner of the 2000 Barry Award for Be Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before, prepare for a crash course in taut, clean writing and subtle psychology. Chief Inspector Alan Banks of Britain's Eastvale Regional Police reappears in another fluently written, superior mystery.

It is apparent who the murderer is, but Banks quickly finds out that nothing in this case is quite as straightforward as it seems. In this first Inspector Banks novel, a peeping tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two young thugs are breaking into homes; and an old woman may or may not have been murdered.

In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with the local feminists and his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. Robinson has stated that Eastvale is modelled on Ripon and Richmond and is somewhere north of Ripon, close to the A1 road[ sic]. The novel was nominated for the 1999 Hammett Prize, [6] was shortlisted for the American Edgar Award, [7] and won the 2000 Anthony and Barry Awards for Best Novel. Janssen, Victoria "Fresh Meat: Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson" Criminal Element, 31 December 2012.

From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes Gallows View, the first book in Peter Robinson’s the Inspector Banks series.Many people are entangled in this crime – some whose lives are shattered by it, and some with unspeakable secrets in their pasts. In this artful abridgement of Inspector Alan Banks's 15th series appearance, things get personal for the Yorkshire policeman. As the tension mounts, Banks must also deal with his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller - and when both Jenny and Banks's wife are drawn deeper into events, Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer and closer together . In the cellar of 35 The Hill, two people are dead, a third is dying, and behind a door more bodies are laid out. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently relocated with his family from stressful London to the Yorkshire Dales, but soon finds that life in the countryside is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined.

His first cases involve a Peeping Tom frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs breaking into homes and robbing people; and an old woman who may or may not have been murdered. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Peter has written twenty-four books in the number one bestselling DCI Banks series, as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, including the number one bestseller Before the Poison.The novel follows Inspector Banks as he investigates the murder of Officer DI Bill Quinn, who has been shot through the heart by a bolt from a crossbow while convalescing at the St. A Yorkshire town's chief inspector tries to determine whether a Peeping Tom, a pair of toughs who harass the elderly and an old woman's murder are related. A rotting corpse in the Yorkshire Dales brings Chief Inspector Alan Banks to the insular village of Swainshead in the latest of Robinson's ( Gallows View ) justly acclaimed series of procedurals. The victim was white, in his early thirties, five feet eleven inches tall, ten and a half stone in weight, and in good physical condition.