Inspector Banks · Book 4
The Hanging Valley
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 273
- ISBN-13
- 9780143051039
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hanging Valley (1989), the fourth entry at 273 pages, follows A Necessary End and precedes Past Reason Hated. Peter Robinson's Yorkshire procedural is built for reading in publication order, with Banks's marriage and career developing continuously from book to book rather than resetting.
Its place in Inspector Banks
The Hanging Valley is book 4 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows A Necessary End. It is followed by Past Reason Hated. 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 9780143051039