A faceless corpse, two long-unsolved cases, and a silent Yorkshire village draw Chief Inspector Alan Banks into a gripping British police procedural that sends him across the Atlantic in pursuit of a killer.

When a faceless body is found in a tranquil valley just south of the Yorkshire village of Swainshead, Chief Inspector Alan Banks soon discovers that no one is willing to talk about it, except to say, “Not again.” An unsolved murder from five years before and the disappearance of a prominent local man’s girlfriend appear to be connected.

As Banks delves deeper into the cold-case mystery, someone begins to intentionally obstruct his investigation. When events take a turn, Banks must pursue a killer across the Atlantic and find a break in the case before time runs out.

The fourth book in the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks Mystery Series, The Hanging Valley is a compelling British police procedural about buried secrets, village loyalties, and murder.