Gallows View: The first novel in the number one bestselling Inspector Banks series

Peter Robinson

Aug 2009 · The Inspector Banks series Book 1 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

‘The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are the best series on the market. Try one and tell me I’m wrong’ - Stephen King

From the master of police procedural and bestselling author of Standing in the Shadows comes Gallows View, the first book in Peter Robinson’s the Inspector Banks series.

New Town. New Cases. New Danger . . .

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently relocated with his family from stressful London to the Yorkshire Dales, but soon finds that life in the countryside is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined.

Three cases come to the fore: a voyeur is terrorizing the women of Eastvale; two thugs are breaking into homes; and an old woman is dead, possibly murdered. As the tension mounts, Banks must also deal with his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller – and when both Jenny and Banks’s wife are drawn deeper into events, Banks realizes that his cases are weaving closer and closer together . . .

Gallows View is followed by A Dedicated Man in the DCI Banks series.

'If you haven’t encountered Chief Inspector Alan Banks before, prepare for a crash course in taut, clean writing and subtle psychology. And watch for those twists – they’ll get you every time' - Ian Rankin, author of A Game Called Malice

Ratings and reviews

Not sure I see Stephen Tompkinson as Banks after reading this first book but a good read all the same.

Although at times it appeared to get bogged down in explaining procedures, on the whole it moves at a quick enough pace to make it an engaging and enjoyable enough read

Good story starting with a slow melody but soon turning into a busy play finishing on a high crescendo.

About the author

Peter Robinson is the author of twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, including the Number One bestseller Before The Poison. Peter's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards all over the world.

Peter's DCI Banks was a major ITV1 drama. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) played Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) played DI Annie Cabbot.

Peter's standalone novel Before the Poison won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.

Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and lived between Richmond and Canada. He died in October 2022.