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A review by micrummey
The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson
4.0
A crime novel with a title The Hanging Valley makes it sound like a place where hangings used to take place. The Hanging Valley in this case refers to a geological feature formed by a glacier. It is in this valley an unrecognisable body is discovered by a hiker.
Of course Inspector Banks is called upon to investigate the murder and to try and find a mystery woman now linked to another murder in the same area several years previously.
This takes Banks to Canada and this gives an excuse for Robinson to write a travelogue about Canada and Toronto in particular, so much so I've tagged this book as travel as well.
As a police procedural, it's a slow burner as Banks and his team discover who the killer is but the author still treats the reader to an ending I didn't see coming, although that ending is rather abrupt.
Of course Inspector Banks is called upon to investigate the murder and to try and find a mystery woman now linked to another murder in the same area several years previously.
This takes Banks to Canada and this gives an excuse for Robinson to write a travelogue about Canada and Toronto in particular, so much so I've tagged this book as travel as well.
As a police procedural, it's a slow burner as Banks and his team discover who the killer is but the author still treats the reader to an ending I didn't see coming, although that ending is rather abrupt.