Inspector Banks · Book 3
A Necessary End
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 317
- ISBN-13
- 9780330491631
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Necessary End (1989) is the third Inspector Banks novel, arriving 317 pages long between A Dedicated Man and The Hanging Valley. Like the rest of the series, it continues Peter Robinson's character-driven approach — old grudges and class resentment surfacing in the fictional Yorkshire Dales, with Banks's own home life quietly evolving alongside the case.
Its place in Inspector Banks
A Necessary End is book 3 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows A Dedicated Man. It is followed by The Hanging Valley. See the full Inspector Banks reading order.
Alan Banks left a burnt-out career in the Metropolitan Police for what he expected to be a quieter posting in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale — and instead spent nearly three decades investigating murders that dig into the fault lines of small-town and rural England: old grudges, class resentment, and secrets that surface decades later. Peter Robinson wrote Banks as a genuine music and whisky enthusiast whose personal tastes colour the prose, and let his home life evolve in real time across the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780330491631