Gallows View

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143173235
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallows View written by Peter Robinson and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The climax, choreographed to a furious pace, should fill the land with the sound of pages turning." —Toronto Star The classic first novel in Peter Robinson's internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series! Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has recently relocated from London to Eastvale, a quiet town in the Yorkshire dales, seeking to escape to stress of city life. But he soon finds that life in the country is not quite as idyllic as he had imagined . . . As a peeping Tom disturbs the peace of Eastvale women, two local teenagers commit crimes that escalate from theft to violence. Then, an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home. As the cases weave closer and closer together, Banks finds himself caught in a net of danger that threatens his suddenly vulnerable personal life. Haunting and harrowing, Gallows View is powerful novel of suspense that will linger long in the mind.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745226
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallows View written by Peter Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first “devilishly good” (The New York Times Book Review) book in the thrilling bestselling crime series featuring British inspector Alan Banks as he seeks to catch a Jack the Ripper-like killer who is prowling the countryside. Chief Inspector Alan Banks moved away from London to the quaint village of Eastvale to find some peace, but trouble can be found in a village as well as in the city. Soon Banks must contend with a Peeping Tom, a group of thieving young thugs, and the brutal murder of an elderly woman in her home. A growing friendship with psychologist Jenny Fuller and tension with wife Sandra complicate matters, particularly when Jenny and Banks’s family are threatened. Ultimately, as the story builds to a surprising and terrifying climax, Banks must make some hard decisions.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992213
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Affair written by Peter Robinson and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alan Banks receives a disturbing telephone call from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to search him out. But Roy has vanished into thin air, and now Banks fears this could have been their final conversation. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale. A young woman called Jennifer Clewes has been found dead in her car, and in the back pocket of her jeans, written on a slip of paper, police discover Banks’s name and address. Living in his brother’s empty, luxurious South Kensington flat, Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew, or even liked. He begins to uncover some troubling surprises, leaving Annie to track down Jennifer Clewes’s friends and colleagues alone. It seems that both trails are leading towards frightening conclusions. And when the cases begin to intersect, the consequences for Banks and Annie become terrifying . . . Strange Affair is Peter Robinson’s fifteenth Inspector Banks novel, and it amply demonstrates why he’s counted among the top crime fiction writers in the world.

Author : Benjamin Myers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526611147
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gallows Pole written by Benjamin Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker 'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year ... It's the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745269
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Necessary End written by Peter Robinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A policeman is stabbed to death at an anti-nuclear demonstration outside the Eastvale Community Centre in Yorkshire. In a politically motivated move, Detective Superintendent Richard “Dirty Dick” Burgess is pulled in from London to run the investigation. With a long list of suspects and an old enemy breathing down his neck, the odds are against Chief Inspector Alan Banks as he races to find the killer before Burgess and save his career. Third in the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks Mystery Series.

Author : Meg Kassel
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
ISBN 13 : 163375815X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Bird of the Gallows written by Meg Kassel and published by Entangled: Teen. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pleasingly original contribution to the paranormal-romance genre.” —Kirkus Reviews A simple but forgotten truth: Where harbingers of death appear, the morgues will soon be full. Angie Dovage can tell there’s more to Reece Fernandez than just the tall, brooding athlete who has her classmates swooning, but she can’t imagine his presence signals a tragedy that will devastate her small town. When something supernatural tries to attack her, Angie is thrown into a battle between good and evil she never saw coming. Right in the center of it is Reece—and he’s not human. What's more, she knows something most don't. That the secrets her town holds could kill them all. But that’s only half as dangerous as falling in love with a harbinger of death. Each book in the Black Bird of the Gallows series is STANDALONE: * Cleaner of Bones (Prequel) * Black Bird of the Gallows * Keeper of the Bees

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743031637
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In A Dry Season: DCI Banks 10 written by Peter Robinson and published by Pan. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground ... until he unearths a human skeleton. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but Banks sets out to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time...

Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0440227259
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gallows Hill written by Lois Duncan and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named an ALA Quick Pick, an exciting thriller by the author of the best-seller I Know What You Did Last Summer features a seventeen-year-old girl who becomes a clairvoyant and is branded a witch, in a repeat of the Salem witch trials. Reprint. AB.

Author : Philip S. Hall
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166754
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Wounded Knee to the Gallows written by Philip S. Hall and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the Black Hills Daily Times the next day read “A GOOD INDIAN”—a spiteful turn on the infamous saying “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” On the gallows, Two Sticks, known among his people as Can Nopa Uhah, declared, “My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy.” Indeed, years later, convincing evidence emerged supporting his claim. The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in compelling detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota in the wake of Wounded Knee. The Indian unrest of 1890 did not end with the massacre, as the government willfully neglected, mismanaged, and exploited the Oglala in a relentless, if unofficial, policy of racial genocide that continues to haunt the Black Hills today. In From Wounded Knee to the Gallows, Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala’s struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Sticks’s life and the miscarriage of justice that ended with his death. Bracketed by the run-up to, and craven political motivation behind, Wounded Knee and the later revelations establishing Two Sticks’s innocence, this is a history of a people threatened with extinction and of one man felled in a battle for survival hopelessly weighted in the white man’s favor. With eyewitness immediacy, this rigorously researched and deeply informed account at long last makes plain the painful truth behind a dark period in U.S. history.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143173200
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Right written by Peter Robinson and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy night in Eastvale, a teenager is found in an alleyway, smashed over the head with a beer bottle and beaten to death. What first looks like a typical after-hours pub brawl gone seriously wrong soon becomes more complex and more sinister. The victim, Jason Fox, was a member of a white power organization known as the Albion League, and had recently been let go from his factory job because of his racist views. So who was his killer? The Pakistani youths he had insulted in the pub earlier that evening? The shady friends of his business partner, Mark Wood? Or could it have been someone from the organization who was concerned with Jason's growing power? Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Constable Susan Gay must struggle with a case complicated by escalating racial tensions and simmering departmental politics.