Meet Inspector Banks Author:Peter Robinson Omnibus of Inspector Banks titles. Includes three titles: Gallow's View, A Dedicated Man, and A Necessary End. — In Gallow's View, Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has recently been transferred from London to Eastvale, a town in the Yorkshire Dales. His desire to escape the street of city life appears to be sati... more »sfied by Eastvale's cobbled market square, its tree-shaded river and its picturesque castle ruins. But the village soon begins to show a more dangerous side...
As a Peeping Tom disturbs the peace of Eastvale, police are accused of underestimating the seriousness of the crime. At the same time, Banks is also investigating the case of two local teenagers whose crimes are escalating from theft to violence. The two cases weave together as this tough, gritty novel of power and suspense reaches a terrifying and surprising climax.
In Banks's next case, A Dedicated Man, he is called in to unravel the truth of what happened to Harry Steadman. Who would kill the kindly scholar? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful woman with a disturbing past? Harry's editor? A shady land developer? And is it possible that young Sally Lumb, locked in her lover's arms on the night of the murder, could unknowingly hold the key to the case?
Detective Chief Inspector Banks returns for a third case in A Necessary End. But things are made difficult for Banks when Superintendant Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess is sent from London, for political reasons, to lead the investigation. Sifting through a host of unusual suspects and disturbing discoveries about the police themselves, Banks is finally warned off the case. And the only way he can salvage his career is by beating Burgess to the killer.« less