Gallows View - Peter Robinson

I thought I’d heard of most of fiction’s leading detectives, but a recent promotional offer from Bananas, an offshoot of The Book People, alerted me to the existence Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks. He’s been around since 1987, apparently, albeit confined to the shadows of Messrs. Morse, Frost, Rebus et al, not to mention several European counterparts, so no wonder, perhaps, that I’d never come across him previously. With the front cover of _Gallows ...
...from none other than Ian Rankin, the creator of Rebus, I was persuaded to make the purchase. And then I read a number of readers’ reviews which turned out to be a rather mixed bunch of opinions – some were full of praise for Robinson’s work, others were indifferent, whilst a few were positively scathing in their criticism – I wondered which of them I’d agree with. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, to give him his full rank and title, has moved ...

silverstreak 16.05.2009 (24.05.2009) · Read full review
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I'd once read a Peter Robinson - Inspector Banks novel a while ago, completely out of sequence and without any regard for the adventures that this policeman had had up until then. Having enjoyed the book more of less I felt that I should at some point do the whole series justice and do, as Julie Andrews might suggest, start at the very beginning. Managing to pick up an omnibus copy of his first two books in a charity shop for the princely sum of ...
...a tiny little bit of background to the Inspector Banks series of novels and the creator, Peter Robinson. The series began back in 1987, i.e. when this book "Gallows View" was published and has now been running, at time of writing, for 16 instalments. The books are almost totally located in the imaginary town of Eastvale in Yorkshire, which is where Peter Robinson himself hails from before he emigrated to Canada in 1974. As I say "Gallows View" was ...

etala 11.10.2006 · Read full review
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