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Chargement... Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel (édition 2016)par Peter Robinson (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe Voyeur du Yorkshire par Peter Robinson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I really disliked this book from page one to the final paragraph. The Inspector is dull and boring - outside of his utterly adulterous behavior. Every character is constantly drinking. Every scene or action of the novel deals with sex in some twisted way (peeping Tom, rape, adultery, porn). The behaviors of the characters are toxic and stupid. The writing is inconsistent. And I think one of the worst characters ever to be written is in this one (Dr. Fuller is a farcical, toxic, inconsistent, tool. Not a solid, valid character.) Recommended for the fireplace, eh? Inspector Alan Banks moved from London to the quiet Yorkshire dales city of Eastvale to escape the stress of his job. The plan seemed solid - nothing happens in small sleepy English towns, right? Well, that may be semi-true in real life but in the imagination of the British crime writers, they are worse than the big city. A few months into the job he catches a few cases that appear to be unrelated - a peeping Tom terrorizes the women of the town, someone keeps burglarizing homes and one day an old woman is killed, seemingly while she surprised someone trying to steal what little she owned. The police is struggling a bit with a very vocal feminist about the police not carrying about the Peeping Tom because he does not threaten men so the chief decides to bring in a psychologist, Jenny Fuller, to assist. The fact that she is a beautiful woman and has a connection to the already mentioned feminist makes her even better in the eyes of most people. The fact that she knows it and shares it makes for a funny moment. And off we are, chasing after all the perpetrators. Except that the tracks keep crossing and you never know when pieces from one of the cases will show up in another. And in the middle of that Alan is being very British and is resisting his attraction to his colleague (being married and all) and all that tension is almost palpable through the novel. And just when the things get completely jumbled, the cases start breaking open one after another and Alan needs to decide who he needs to protect - Jenny or his wife. And the decision has nothing to do with love - he needs to think as a policeman - and that is not exactly easy at that point. The novel will probably sound a bit dated if one does not check when it was written - police and society had evolved since these days (or so one hopes). But even with those pieces in, it works. Alan Banks is a likeable character, not perfect and human enough, to make one want to read more of this series. It is a very good start of a series that is still going - #27 is expected in March 2021.
In Edgar Award–nominated Robinson's 1991 book, the first in a series featuring British inspector Alan Banks, readers meet Banks as he moves to Yorkshire seeking peace of mind. His retirement is short-lived as a contemporary Jack the Ripper begins prowling the countryside. Mark Honan delivers a powerful and affecting performance that will make Banks a favorite for years to come. Appartient à la sérieInspector Banks (1) Prix et récompenses
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HTML: Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed. When an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home, Chief Inspector Banks wonders if the voyeur has increased the awful intensity of his criminal activities. But whether related or not, perverse local acts and murderous ones are combining to profoundly touch Banks's suddenly vulnerable personal life, forcing a dedicated law officer to make hard choices he'd dearly hoped would never be necessary. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is the second Inspector Banks book written by Peter Robinson and the first published. The first book and the second published is 50% is better but still only one star.
The first of the novels are saved by the TV series with Stephen Tomlinson as Inspector Banks. The series reveals a very interesting person. So, I have read on and at this point up to book 7 in the series. and now the books are getting three stars.
Fine music, art, literature, poetry become frequent reference points in the novels. As well, Robinson, pulls in delicious old words which add depth and some acute observations of the human condition. And then there is a whole undulating quality in each plot laid out over the undulating Yorkshire Dales. As you read on you become familiar with the Robinson's nostalgic appreciation of this place and its people. The place names are fictional except for the real places of York and Leeds, but his Eastvale has the places and qualities of a large town in the Dales.
I read elsewhere that Robinson himself has a PhD in literature and particularly in a period of poetry. He started writing these novels from his academic post in Canada and reflecting back on his home place. The novels have a quality of memory, of love of place, of care between people and the disruption caused by murder and the breaking of trust.
There are lots of good things in reading these, one after another as I have been doing, but there is still that imbibing of far too much alcohol far too often and a warped idea of male sexuality; of a sense that men assume that all women are attracted to them just because they are male even if they are gross in form and ugly in face or nature. Robinson's men are not my experience of being a male person. ( )