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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan Books (December 27, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509859047
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509859047
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.08 x 0.83 x 7.72 inches

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Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. Peter has written twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, the most recent of which is Number One bestseller BEFORE THE POISON. Peter's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.

Peter's DCI Banks is now a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot. The first series aired in Autumn 2011 with an adaptation of FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, the second in Autumn 2012, and the third in February 2014.

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.

Find out more from Peter's website, www.inspectorbanks.com, or visit his Facebook page, www.facebook.com/peterrobinsonauthor.

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Linda W.

Find your way into The Hanging Valley

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2016

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The Hanging Valley is the fourth case I have investigated with Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a new favorite of mine.
Peter Robinson's writing draws the reader into the book and supports and propels one along the roads in Yorkshire and Toronto with the Chief Inspector. The time in Toronto seems extended and provided so many details that seem to distract from the story, not add to it.
Within the initial pages the reader engages with the four characters that form the core of the most likely villains in the book. The Chief Inspector faces the challenge of unraveling their relationships now and from years ago as well as their motives in order to solve the murders in the book. Throughout the book, the reader suspects and eventually learns the extent of evil developed in each character which guides their actions. A feeling persists that some twist in the extent of guilt each character bears will happen and eventually the twist materializes.
The author effectively utilizes his skills in character development, plot structure, and location details to write an engaging story.

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Alison S. Coad

Good Entry in Long-Running Series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 26, 2016

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The body of a hiker is found at the beginning of "The Hanging Valley," the fourth novel in the long-running Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. The man turns out to be an ex-pat living in Toronto, Canada, and he has more connections with the locals in the Yorkshire Dales than Inspector Banks originally suspects; his investigation sends Banks to Toronto, to Oxford and beyond, but he is far behind the culprit and the bodies are piling up…. I’m enjoying discovering this series, about which I had heard but which I’ve only just started to read. This one is less about the relationships between Banks and his colleagues than the previous novels, but those relationships seem fairly well established at this point, so the author was able to concentrate more on the plot this time around. I believe there are something like 22 novels in this series to date, which means I’ve got a lot of books to look forward to; recommended!

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Getting better all the time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 23, 2021

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After watching the series on TV decided to have a go with the books. They are all good but this one seems to have blossomed into quite a good novel. Now looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.

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James Shrader

Complex and Intriguing Plot Arc!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2015

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I confess that I was led to this series after watching the TV adaptations. I have now read each tome in order up to "The Hanging Valley." Banks is an interesting character study and the reader finds out a little more about him with each book. Here, the complexities of the plot twists dominate. The characterizations are all well-honed and the descriptions of the local settings are wonderful! An added bonus is Banks's brief investigative sojourn to Toronto. This is a well-constructed story that you can really sink your teeth into! I suggest a curl up by the fire with a single malt and lose yourself in the Yorkshire countryside.

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Pat Viar

One Bad One Out of Twenty-something. Pretty good record.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2016

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Peter Robinson is just about my favorite writer of English police procedurals and Alan Banks my favorite character. I have read every one of the Banks novels more than once but for some reason had skipped "The Hanging Valley". I recently read it and it turned out to be a disappointment ( especially since I paid $12 for it for my Kindle). It was just not up to the usual. Nothing made sense in the book - there was too much meditating and character analyzing. However I will probably read them all again except "The Hanging Valley."

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Very enjoyable, great story that keeps you guessing throughout, being a yorkshire man living in Houston Tx, Peter really paints the picture so i can really relate to the area that he is descibing.

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jacquestati

Should be allowed to go out of print

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2015

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Very disappointing. Having picked up and enjoyed his 24th book in London, I thought the earlier works were just what I needed when hit by flu. For the most part they are good reads if lacking the subtlety of the latest. This one, however, is simply bad: many one dimensional characters, too long spent on a Cook's tour of Toronto, unbelievable police expense budgets and time (send a policeman to spend a week in a B & B to keep his eyes open? Send another to Toronto without a budget yet somehow he can drink his way around the city?), and unbelievable ciphers of upper class toffs. Having gone to an ancient British university myself I suggest that Mr Robinson needed to do better research and get over his own snobbery before trying to create villains with this background. As others have noted, there is really no ending to this book and there are many loose ends and illogicalities.

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Richard Sigrist

Hanging Valley

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2011

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I liked this story by Peter Robinson. I have listened to most of them. After listening to the latest ones, I started with the very first one and am now up to Book 5. It is interesting to see how the writer has aged Banks and his family over the last 20 years. The writer and Banks have aged together and it seems they witnessed the world thru every changing eyes. Nothing is static. Great books. I would love to see movies of Inspector Banks, and have heard there was one filmed for the BBC, but not available in the US.

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Damaskcat

The Hanging Valley

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2014

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Number four in this excellent series featuring Yorkshire based DCI Alan Banks. I have to confess I am totally hooked on this well written and absorbing series of police procedural crime novels. In this one a decomposing body is found in an isolated valley. A tourist discovers it while on a walking holiday. But it soon becomes clear that a group of locals know more about the body than in perhaps good for them.

This wide ranging story sees Banks travelling to Canada and to Oxford to try and unravel the skeins of evil which have a long history and which threaten to cause more deaths in the present. There are some particularly unpleasant characters in this story but all are well drawn and believable. There are some likeable ones too.

This is a well written novel which could be read as a standalone novel as there is enough background information to update a new reader with what is happening in the private lives of the series characters. I particularly enjoy the Yorkshire background and the atmosphere of the fells is brought vividly to life.

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C E GRAY

Why this book wasn,t sent to my Kindle.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 31, 2019

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I cant express aview on this Kindle edition book for the simple reason thatb it doesn,t appear in the Library on my device. your records will show that I have been invoiced for this book and been debited with the cost - £0.99 on the 28th October the same date I purchased In a Dry Season by the same author and for the same sum of£0.99.
Please will you correct this error on your part and send Thee Hanging Valley book to my Kindle.

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Mrs Ferret

Good British detective story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2014

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I must start by saying that this is the first Chief Inspector Banks story I've read but it does standalone & I didn't feel that I missed anything by not having read the previous books.
The story begins with a body found in Hanging Valley, a corpse with its face so badly damaged as to make it indistinguishable. Identifying the body leads Banks to another unsolved murder which took place in the same quiet area some five years earlier. Are the two murders linked & if so then how? The trail moves from the sleepy village & takes Banks as far as Canada in his search for the killer.
The characters include the Collier brothers who are the local powerful landowners, Sam Greenock who is desperate to be in their circle & Sam's downtrodden, God fearing wife Katie who has torments of her own.
I presume this book is set in the 70's or thereabouts as people are still smoking in pubs & not even the police seem to worry about drinking & driving. I liked the descriptions of the places (those of Canada were particularly good) & Mr Robinson put enough flesh on the bones of his characters to give them life.
I didn't find this riveting but still enjoyed it & would read more in the series.

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N. P, Muswell Hill

Nice Book - Shame About the Size!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 27, 2017

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Not sure if I love it or not as I never bothered unwrapping it. It arrived very quickly but - big but - it was NOT 'as described' in the product description. That it was a different ISBN number is by the by really but what really matters (to many of us book lovers) is that the format/size was wrong. Instead of the expected B-format, it turned out to be the smaller 110mx178mm mass market format, like something from the 1970s! Size does matter! I like my books to have a nice uniform look on the bookshelf - don't we all! - so to have one a different size to the rest is like having a broken tooth in a Hollywood smile! It's not the first time this has happened and Amazon really need to address the issue and realise that it's in everyone's interest to make sure that product descriptions work as they're supposed to.

Full marks to Welly Bob Books though for their customer service. The book was delivered very quickly and they were very quick to respond to my query and apologetic for the mix up and kindly said that they would refund the money. So I'd have no hesitation about using them again

Norman Owen

The Hanging Valley

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 28, 2020

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Of all the detective series that ha e been adalted for TV;Morse,Frost,Barnby etc. DCI Banks is the one that has not really worked for me: the characters just do not work in the same way.And yet I love the books,and The Hanging Valley remains my absolute favourite. The characters are so beautifully created. especially Katie, and her life is so vividly portrayed, something that does not always happen in the later books. Banks himself also seems a happier and more content person, and it makes one wonder if all the subsequent events that he has to endure in his life make him a harder character to understand. Maybe that is the reason why I have such a problem with the TV version.

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