Gallows View
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 225
- ISBN-13
- 9781447225430
- Type
- novel
About this book
Gallows View (1987) opens Peter Robinson's long-running series, introducing Alan Banks fresh from a burnt-out Metropolitan Police career and newly posted to the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale. It's the start of a 225-page series-opener that unfolds in strict publication order — Banks's marriage, career, and the Dales themselves all develop continuously from here.
Key facts about Gallows View
Peter Robinson wrote Gallows View, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 225 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781447225430 to find the main one.
Gallows View is book 1 of 28 in the Inspector Banks series. The series has 28 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
Gallows View is book 1 in the Inspector Banks series. It is followed by A Dedicated Man. 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 9781447225430