Inspector Banks · Book 1
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.
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