Gallows view the first Inspector Banks novel
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors, among them a brazen Peeping Tom who h...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Paperbacks,
2010.
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| Series: | Robinson, Peter, 1950-2022. Inspector Banks ;
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| Summary: | Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors, among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed. And when an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home, Chief Inspector Banks wonders if the voyeur has increased the intensity of his criminal activities. But whether related or not, perverse local acts and murderous ones are combining to profoundly touch Banks's suddenly vulnerable personal life, forcing a dedicated law officer to make hard choices he'd dearly hoped would never be necessary. |
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| Physical Description: | 309 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780062009388 0062009389 |
| Author Notes: | His first novel, Gallows View, was published in 1987 and became the first book in the Inspector Banks Mystery series. The most recent book in the series is Not Yet Dark (2021). His other works include Caedmon's Song, No Cure for Love, Not Safe after Dark and Other Stories, Before the Poison, When the Music's Over, and Sleeping in the Ground. He has received numerous awards including the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 1992 for Past Reason Hated, and in 2018 for Sleeping in the Ground. He received the Author's Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1994 for Final Account. He has also published many short stories in anthologies and in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, including Innocence, which won the CWC Best Short Story Award, and The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, which won a Macavity Award. He has taught at a number of Toronto colleges and served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor, Ontario, 1992-93. Peter Robinson, an award-winning author, died on October 4, 2022. He was 72. (Bowker Author Biography) |
