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Gallows View

Inspector Banks, Book 1

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‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I'm wrong’ Stephen King

Gallows View is the first novel in Peter Robinson's bestselling Inspector Banks series.

NEW TOWN. NEW CASES. NEW DANGER.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently relocated with his family to the Yorkshire Dales from stressful London but soon finds that life in the countryside is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined.

Three cases come to the fore: a voyeur is terrorizing the women of Eastvale. Two thugs are breaking into homes, and an old woman is dead, possibly murdered. 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 . . .

Gallows View is followed by A Dedicated Man in the Inspector Banks series.

 Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Thriller Banking Crime England Suspense

Critic reviews

If you haven't encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before, prepare for a crash course in taut, clean writing and subtle psychology. And watch for those twists - they'll get you every time (Ian Rankin)
An expert plotter with an eye for telling detail
The novels of Peter Robinson are chilling, evocative, deeply nuanced works of art (Dennis Lehane)
All stars
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Have probably had my fill of these kind of intelligent, genteel detective stories. The characters and story are a bit dated now although the book is quite well written. Agatha Christie, it is not but OK for a holiday read.

Genteel detective story

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Great story, and the reading is brilliant. my only real issue was with the chapter structure. For me I found the chapters being in parts, instead of having seperate chapters confusing, especially in audio format. I think it would have been less of an issue reading the physical copy of the book but I did struggle for the first hour or so until the story got going. Overall enjoyable after that though.

great

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well read and a good tale.
very pleasant to listen to and woll look for more in the series.

very entertaining

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Good plot but as I have read other DCI Banks before the voices of the narrator did not meet with my imagination . I would have foun d it better if he had just read it without trying to alter voice for diferent characters.

Good story but did not like the narrator

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this felt very dated and the narration was dreary. it was just ok, but I really didn't care what happened. maybe it was just the lackluster narration.

just ok

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