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.
Key facts about A Necessary End
A Necessary End is a novel by Peter Robinson. Readers have had it since 1989. It runs to 317 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Necessary End. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780330491631 to find the main one.
A Necessary End is book 3 of 28 in the Inspector Banks series. The series has 28 published books. However, the series starts with Gallows View (1987). Watching the Dark is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 August 2012.
That series sits on our police procedural shelf. Meanwhile, Standing in the Shadows is the latest published Peter Robinson book on file, from 2023.
About Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson was a British-Canadian crime novelist best known for the Inspector Alan Banks series, a long-running police procedural set in and around the fictional Yorkshire town of Eastvale. See every Peter Robinson book in order.
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