num_pages: 336
description: A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people, and an old woman may or may not have been murdered.Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of city life.In addition to all this, Banks has to deal with local feminists plus his attraction to a young psychologist, Jenny Fuller. As the tension mounts, both Jenny and Banks’s wife, Sandra, are drawn deeper into the events. The cases weave together as the story reaches a tense and surprising climax.
language: English
title: Gallows View
titlecomplete: Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)
characters: David (Gallows View), Dr. Charles Stewart Glendenning, Dr. Jenny Fuller, Ethel Carstairs, Sergeant Jim Hatchley, Sandra Banks, David Craig, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Susan Gay, Graham Sharp, Lennie Webster, Phil Richmond, Mick Webster, Fred Rowe, Tracy Banks (aka Francesca), Alice Matlock, Louis Micklethwaite, Trevor Sharp, Robin Allott, Dorothy Wycombe, Brian Banks, Carol Ellis, Superintendent Gristhorpe, Harriet (Gallows View), Mr. Wooller, Thelma Pitt
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Police, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Canada, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 16180
places: Yorkshire, England
series: Inspector Banks
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: CWA New Blood Dagger
publisher: Avon