Hanging Valley
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Suspense
Read by Tim Goodman, A rotting corpse in the Yorkshire Dales brings Chief Inspector Alan Banks to the insular village of Swainshead in the latest of Robinsons ( Gallows View ) justly acclaimed series of procedurals. Aided by a receipt found in the trousers pocket of the murder victim, Banks identifies him as Bernard Allen, a local youth on a visit home from Canada. The investigation leads back five years to the unsolved murder of a PI hunting for a young girls killer and the nearly simultaneous disappearance of a village woman. Evoking Ruth Rendells Wexford setting and, like her, posing multiple solutions before the storys closing, Robinson lets Banks do much of his deducing with a pint glass in his handhere inviting comparisons with Colin Dexters Inspector Morse. Watching Banks down his beer is the pool of likeliest suspects, including two landowner brothers with sinister pasts, a pretentious B&B owner and his sexually repressed wife. Banks travels to Canada (on the trail of the missi
