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In A Dry Season (Inspector Banks #10)

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When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask anevil secret from the past.

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Published July 3rd 2000 by Avon (first published January 1st 1999)

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Feb 15, 2013 Monica rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: british, crime-and-or-evil, reread

How can I give this book 4 1/2 stars? The series keeps getting better, developing the main characters, filling in back stories, weaving the relationships into more complicated patterns. It's really good.

Banks has been exiled to desk duty for months thanks to the vindictive Jimmy Riddle. Riddle finally gives him what looks to be a no hope case. The town of Hobbs End was abandoned in the 50's, flooded by a reservoir which has emptied in a dry summer. A young boy playing in the abandoned buildings...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Ian Mapp rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime

Easily the best Robinson - with Banks having now split from his wife, a jump that makes me think that I have perhaps missed a book in the sequence.

Simple story, beautifully told. A village flooded to make a resevoir, is revealed during a drought and a body is found. One of the people involved with the story hears this on the news and she is an author who writes crimes and the story of the body/murder is revealed in alternating chapters with the current investigation.

This book within a book techn...more Easily the best Robinson - with Banks having now split from his wife, a jump that makes me think that I have perhaps missed a book in the sequence.

Simple story, beautifully told. A village flooded to make a resevoir, is revealed during a drought and a body is found. One of the people involved with the story hears this on the news and she is an author who writes crimes and the story of the body/murder is revealed in alternating chapters with the current investigation.

This book within a book technique is expertly delivered and gives robinson the chance to poke fun at the inaccuracies that crime writers use about police technique.

The story - Gloria is a free spirit who during the war works in Hobbs end as a land girl. She falls in love with the shop girls (future author) brother who she marries but thinks she loses in the war.

She starts relationships with many of the GIs in the village but is shocked when the husband returns, having been liberated from a POW camp in Japan - complete with no toungue (getting into dodgy coincidental land here).

The author comes home and finds that gloria has been murdered and the brother is next to her stabbed and strangled body. She feels that her brother did this and hides the body.

The brother commits suicide in the early 50s.

During the investigations - and this is the one part of the story which is dodgy, it is revealed that the murder was actually killed by a GI serial killer who had knocked off a number of other women in the same fashion. He is now in his seventies and on death row, eventually fried - most unlikely.

The end of the book is a high, when the lonliness of the author and the grim realisation that her guilt for all these years was unecessary and that she assisted her brothers suicide is brilliantly written.

Banks is fleshed out even more, with run ins with his son, a new relationship with another detective and his thoughts of strting one with jenny fuller when she comes back on the scene is welcome addition to the quality of the series.(less)

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Oct 20, 2012 Erica Verrillo rated it 5 of 5 stars

In a Dry Season is Robinson's most complex, most sensitive and most satisfying novel. A skeleton, the victim of a violent murder 50 years past, is discovered in a ghost town. Banks, more for personal reasons (his marriage is falling apart) than for anything else, sets out to solve the crime. But who is the victim? Why was she murdered? After fifty years these questions are not easily answered. As Banks unravels this mystery, a second mystery, a story told by an unidentified witness, takes us bac...more

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May 29, 2012 Wendy rated it 2 of 5 stars

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"In a Dry Season is a 1999 work by Peter Robinson and (I discovered after reading it) one of a series of novels featuring Inspector Alan Banks and set in the fictional town of Eastvale in Yorkshire.

I was drawn to this book (I admit it) because I was intrigued by the photograph on the cover, of a winter tree and a church, almost fully submerged in water. Obviously a manipulated image, but intriguing nonetheless. My copy shows a 1940s bomber aircraft reflect...more http://talesfromfoxglovecottage.blogs...

"In a Dry Season is a 1999 work by Peter Robinson and (I discovered after reading it) one of a series of novels featuring Inspector Alan Banks and set in the fictional town of Eastvale in Yorkshire.

I was drawn to this book (I admit it) because I was intrigued by the photograph on the cover, of a winter tree and a church, almost fully submerged in water. Obviously a manipulated image, but intriguing nonetheless. My copy shows a 1940s bomber aircraft reflected in the flood-water, but this seems to have been removed from later editions. A quick search shows me the front covers of other editions: a painting of a submerged village in a valley, almost wholly obscured by writing (Canada); a rather dull picture of water and a ruin (also Canada); and the view down a hill of a row of old-fashioned English cottages, with a crackled effect on the paper to make it look aged (USA). None of these would have drawn me in.

The text on the back of the book is short and to the point; an accurate summary of the opening of the mystery.

"During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the precious resources of Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty 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, unpopular with his superiors for having challenged the system once too often, 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...".

Also intriguing.

And so I started reading.

The text flits between wartime and the present day, the stories running quite quickly beside one another. I was drawn easily into the past, but felt some trepidation on meeting Inspector Banks. Experience has made me cautious. Should I just flick through and skip to the end? Or would this be worth a full reading? I decided to stick to my 50-page rule and continue on. And it didn't let me down... Read more at http://talesfromfoxglovecottage.blogs...(less)

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Feb 10, 2011 Ann rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Not my favorite so far of the Inspector Banks books. I thought this one drug along slowly in the middle and was a bit too long. It was rather unusual for me to wish the epilogue would be shorter and more to the point. (view spoiler)...more

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Feb 01, 2011 Kirsty Darbyshire rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. These are my comments from a bookgroup discussion of this book which is why they probably seem a bit decontextified.....

(Comparing Robinson's use of flashbacks to Robert Crais's in LA Requiem) I prefer Robinson's use of flashbacks, they're telling the same story from a different angle. They are almost not flashbacks at all. I feel there are three intertwined stories that are really the same story. I find them much easier to read than Crais's. When Crais switched to italics and switched from firs...more These are my comments from a bookgroup discussion of this book which is why they probably seem a bit decontextified.....

(Comparing Robinson's use of flashbacks to Robert Crais's in LA Requiem) I prefer Robinson's use of flashbacks, they're telling the same story from a different angle. They are almost not flashbacks at all. I feel there are three intertwined stories that are really the same story. I find them much easier to read than Crais's. When Crais switched to italics and switched from first to third person I felt it was jarring. Even though Robinson switches from first to third person too, I feel the transistions are smoother. Even though Robinson almost always leaves us with a mini cliffhanger as he switches tales I'm happy to get back to one of the other stories and find out what's happening there.

(Comparing Robinson's use of flashbacks to Reginald Hill's in On Beulah Height) I read that quite a while ago now. I don't feel Robinson is up to Hill's standard as a writer, but I do feel he weaves the plot together more than competently and am seeing parallels between what happens in one story and what happens in another. It's not of the same standard as Hill's interwoven plot in _On Beulah Height_ though, I think that book was a masterpiece of plotting, and though I haven't finished _In a Dry Season_ yet, I think the weaving is of a more superficial variety here. I may yet be proven wrong but the book hasn't grabbed me in the way OBH did.

I agree that the hostile superior officer is a bit of a yawny cliche, I kind of skipped over that in the book thinking 'yeah yeah yeah, do something new....'. But I didn't realise that I was reading part of a series until I read the other discussion messages here. I can't find anything in my copy that implies that there are earlier books to be read. If I'd picked this book up by myself I'd be a bit pissed off if I later discovered I'd started in the middle of a series unknowingly. Is this an 'Alan Banks' series then?

In which case I'm quite impressed with Robinson for not making me feel I was in the middle of a series. Banks seemed to be a well rounded character to me, he didn't seem to be wallowing in his problems and they seemed realistic sort of problems. He seemed real and I thought his family problems fleshed out his character nicely without becoming the focus of the book.

All the characters in the book in fact seemed quite realistic, flawed but not larger than life with it. I liked Annie and Gwen too, everyone seems very down to earth.

On the whole the book does come over as very real to me, I'm enjoying all the information there is, whether it's about examining old bones or the onset of more rationing or life in the police force, I haven't yet noticed anything that seemed wholly unlifelike.
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Jun 03, 2010 Tony rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-crime-detection

Robinson, Peter. IN A DRY SEASON. (1999). *****. This in as an extremely well-written and plotted mystery from Robinson featuring his series character, DCI Alan Banks. In the early 1950s, the small village of Hobbs End in Yorkshire was ultimately buried under tons of water as the hollow it occupied was turned into an additional reservoir for the surrounding towns. Now, in the late 1990s, several years of drought have caused the old village to reappear. A young boy was playing in one of the old b...more Robinson, Peter. IN A DRY SEASON. (1999). *****. This in as an extremely well-written and plotted mystery from Robinson featuring his series character, DCI Alan Banks. In the early 1950s, the small village of Hobbs End in Yorkshire was ultimately buried under tons of water as the hollow it occupied was turned into an additional reservoir for the surrounding towns. Now, in the late 1990s, several years of drought have caused the old village to reappear. A young boy was playing in one of the old buildings, climbing on the roof and acting out one of his superhero fantasies, when the support beam gave way and he fell to the old building’s floor. Fortunately, he was not badly hurt, but the fall caused his arm to be buried in the mud. When he pulled his arm out, he pulled with it a skeletal hand. Turns out that the hand was attached to the skeleton of the rest of a young woman’s body, a woman who had been murdered by numerous stabbings with a knife. Enter DCI Banks. He was sent out to take over the crime scene, an assignment given him by his superior who was trying all he could to get Banks to quit the force. There was bad blood between them and a recent argument that had led to a physical confrontation. Banks recruits a local DS, Annie Banks, a bright and resourceful woman who would be of immense help in solving this mystery. This was a crime that had been committed at least fifty years ago, and facts and memories tend to become faint in that amount of time. Were there even any people alive who could provide the information that the police needed? Who was this woman whose skeleton was found? Who was her killer? Why did this happen? Robinson treats the reader to parallel narratives from the present crime investigation to ones from the past involving former residents of Hobbs End, and exposes the roots of the murder that started during the days of WW II. This is a fascinating and masterful mystery from one of England’s finest writers. Highly recommended.(less)

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Jun 27, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

This was a wonderful book. Robinson is a master at creating characters. And the plot was very believable and interesting. This is the first book of his I have read and I am dying to read more.

When a reservoir dries up in Yorkshire, England, an old skeleton is found. It is determined early on that the it is a young woman who had been murdered. It is up to Inspector Banks, along with DC Annie Cabbot to figure out what happened 50 years ago. Robinson switches back and forth between present time and...more

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Oct 20, 2012 Lieve rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: owned

Weer een mooi boek van Peter Robinson, zijn inspecteur, Banks, komt steeds meer en meer tot leven. Ik vind het leuk om de hoofdpersonages zo mooi uitgewerkt te zien. Je gaat doorheen alle boeken, meer en meer meeleven met de inspecteur, geeft voor mij een extra dimensie aan de reeks.

In dit boek is de inspecteur op een zijspoor gezet, zijn vrouw heeft hem verlaten, hij is verhuisd en moet opnieuw beginnen. Algauw is de zaak waar hij op gezet wordt, zijn redding. Het klikt met de agente waar hij...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Helen Kitson rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: detective, fiction

Robinson interweaves a contemporary detective investigation with the wartime journals of Gwen Shackleton. Gwen turns out to be the sister-in-law of Gloria Shackleton, whose skeleton is discovered in a dried-out reservoir constructed on the site of a deserted Yorkshire village.

Gloria was a land girl whose husband, Matthew, went missing during the war, believed killed in a Japanese POW camp. Fifty years on, Chief Inspector Alan Banks has the unenviable task of trying to solve Gloria's murder. Ther...more

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Nov 12, 2010 Ron Chicaferro rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: british-mystery, police-procedural

This book is a stunning addition to the Inspector Alan Banks novels by Peter Robinson. Banks is trying to get on with his life after his wife of 20 years leaves him. His job, what he normally lives for, is about as worse as its ever been. Life does, indeed, seem merciless. Then, an old skeleton is found - a body that dates back to the mid 1940's - the time of World War II in Britain. Banks is put on the case. He's assited by a new character to this series of novels - a female Detective Sargeant...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Sara rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was recommended to me by another goodreads reviewer and I'm glad she did. I'm relatively new to the Inspector Banks series written by Peter Robinson and have read a few of them out of order, which is interesting in a way because I have had views of the characters at various stages in their lives and have strange sort of inside knowledge they don't have. I do like these characters, they have the dimension of real individuals but have an idealized sheen that isn't really found in real li...more

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Nov 11, 2010 Shirley Schwartz rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-5-star-reads

I agree with a number of people that this is a great series and that this book is where the series steps over to be a serious contender in the great mystery series genre. I have enjoyed the books up to now, but they did not really prepare me for the complexity of this novel. Robinson's Chief Inspector Banks is a wonderful creation. This is a book that blends the past and the present and Robinson does this seamlessly. We flit back and forth from present-day England to England during the Second Wo...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Erika rated it 2 of 5 stars

Honestly, I was irritated by the discovery of a 'hand' that had been underwater for five decades, later described as completely lacking any soft or ligamentous tissue... how was it held together? How did the kid pull it out of the mud? How was it propped up so grotesquely? And, we find out later, actually clutching something crucial.... which must have been clutched during the killing... and clutched through possible dragging, and clumsy burial... I am not a scientist and am perhaps judging too...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Jane rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was indeed a dry season. So dry that the Thornfield Reservoir has completely dried up exposing the village of Hobb's End which was flooded when the reservoir was made in the aftermath of WWII. A curious child can't resist exloring the old village when he accidently falls through a rotting roof, lands deep in mud, and comes up holding a skeletal hand.

Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot are both in their supervisor's bad books and that's how they end up investigating this seemingly hopeless case.

I ofte...more

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May 15, 2012 Julia rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

A mystery that takes place in two time periods: during World War II in a tiny village in England, Hobb’s End, and in the present, well, 1999, when, during a drought, the formerly submerged village, dries up and a body is discovered there. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is assigned this case along with Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot, as far as their idiot boss knows, as punishment. The thing is they are both good detectives, but not good enough that I want to read any more of the books in...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Jane rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I believe it was in the first Shrek movie that Donkey described Shrek as an onion. Layers and layers to find the real Shrek. Well, that what this book is like - an onion. Mulitilayered and from different perspectives and alternating between different times. The crime takes place during WWII in the mid 40's in a small English village with an US base close by. The crime is discovered 50 years later. Detective Chief Inspector Banks is assigned the investigation when the body is discovered. Banks ha...more

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Aug 11, 2012 Judy Goodnight rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: british-police-procedural, mystery

Author Peter Robinson hits a home run with this excellent book in the Inspector Banks series. With his personal life and career both in the dumps, Banks gets assigned a dead body to deal with. In this case, it's from a village that's been underwater for almost 50 years as part of a series of reservoirs. An unusual drought emptied the reservoir & a body was found by a boy playing in the revealed remains of the village.

Robinson masterfully interweaves the story of the past - rural England duri...more

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Aug 10, 2010 J.D. rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read Peter Robinson's first Alan Banks novel, GALLOWS VIEW, and thought "Eh, not bad." At some point in many series, however, comes a book that kicks things up a notch. I get the feeling this was such a book for this series.

Banks, who's gotten onto his superior's naughty list, gets shuffled off to investigate a murder that apparently happened in the 1940's. The murder would have gone completely undetected had the reservoir that drowned the tiny village of Hobb's End not run dry and exposed th...more

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Nov 24, 2012 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Robinson is always good, but this one to me wasn't as strong as others. For one he keeps flashing back to this character, supposedly hugely formative to his career decision, who we've never heard of before - Jem. Huh??? I also didn't buy into Sandra's little appearance - w/o calling, just showing up at the worst time and being a bit of a biotch. That was out of character and a bit too convenient (read: sloppy). I did enjoy progression of the back story (other than the Sandra appearance). But wha...more

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Mar 29, 2010 Monica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

“In a Dry Season” is another exceptional book that once again proves Robinson is at the top the pack when it comes to writing mysteries. When a skeleton is found in a dried up town that was once under a reservoir of water, Chief Inspector Alan Banks investigates a murder that took place during wartime in the forties. I like the way Robinson was able to write about the past from the point of view of a woman who lived during that time...and then tie it all up together in Banks’ investigation. Robi...more

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Mar 25, 2013 Clarissa Draper rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: peter-robinson

I really liked this book. It's the first time I read a Robinson but I want to again.

I really liked the two main characters Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot. They have a relationship in this book and so it was an added pleasure to read.

In this book, a skeleton is found when a young boy falls off the room and down on it. As they investigate, the realize the murdered victim is between the ages twenty and thirty and has had a child. The problem is, the victim died over fifty y...more

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May 20, 2013 Leslie Bagley rated it 4 of 5 stars

Tremendous. Want to read more in the series. The main character, Banks, is compelling and invites the reader's empathy. He doesn't get on well with his bosses, his wife has left and he pines for their relationship although he seems to be aware on some level that he and his estranged spouse have moved past the point. The author does a fine job of letting us know these things without telling us. Oh; and there is an old murder to solve which he and his new partner undertake; each step makes the mys...more

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Dec 31, 2010 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: mystery readers,

Recommended to Lisa by: book club

Shelves: mystery, for-book-club

With In a Dry Season, Peter Robinson creates a mostly suspenseful tale in which the much beleaguered DCI, Allan Banks and the freethinking DS Annie Cabbot grapple with a decades old murder, love, their own pasts and family ties. However, brevity is the soul of suspense as well as wit, and this books is not blessed with anything akin to brevity. While I found all facets of book, including the detectives' personal lives,intriguing there were many times when sections could have been neatly pared to...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Tony rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLY

He already thought that he had sunk to the bottom after his marriage ended and he was relegated to desk duty due to one insubordination too many. So when his superior (Jimmy Ridley) assigns him to investigate human remains found in the remote Thornfield Reservoir, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks jumps on the...more THIS SUMMARY/REVIEW WAS COPIED FROM OTHER SOURCES AND IS USED ONLY AS A REMINDER OF WHAT THE BOOK WAS ABOUT FOR MY PERSONAL INTEREST. ANY PERSONAL NOTATIONS ARE FOR MY RECOLLECTION ONLY

He already thought that he had sunk to the bottom after his marriage ended and he was relegated to desk duty due to one insubordination too many. So when his superior (Jimmy Ridley) assigns him to investigate human remains found in the remote Thornfield Reservoir, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks jumps on the case.

Even before he travels to the reservoir, Alan knows that the extra dry season led to the bones being discovered as the water no longer covered them. The forensic crowd determine that the victim is Gloria Shackleton, a Land Girl who worked in the village of Hobb's End during World War II. Just after the war, a reservoir was built on the site of the village. Though someone murdered Gloria five decades ago, Alan investigates the crime as if it happened yesterday.

IN A DRY SEASON, the tenth Inspector Banks police procedural, may be the best tale in the highly regarded series. The story line is filled with details from the past and the present that cleverly intertwine into a wonderful investigation. Alan's marital and job problems provide much insight into his character. The support cast, especially the deceased's sister-in-law (Gwen Shackleton when young and Vivian Elmsley an author when older), augments the plot with much depth from two eras. There may be a drought in Yorkshire, but there is no literary one as long as Peter Robinson continues to provide readers with novels that the audience can bank on as being superb.

Gloria married Matt Shackleton. He goes in the army and is missing in action in Japan or somewhere. Gloria is a party girl and goes out a lot with the other girls in town. They all fraternize with Americans and Canadians. Eventually, Matt comes home a physical and mental mess. Just a burden to all. Anyway the question is who murdered Gloria and there are a few candidates. It ends up that a guy who worked in the PX and provided a lot of liquor, cigarettes, nylons, etc to the town girls killed Gloria and others before he was caught.

The book was good because of two story lines; one from Gwen's memory and one from the current time with Banks and Cabbot working the case. It was a good story but how they came up with the PX guy being the murderer was a little weak.(reread 4/13)

Annie Cabbot is teamed up with Alan Banks. She has been raped by 4 officers and she is basically a pariah in the department. She hits if off with Alan and they have a bit of a fling but she knows that she is not really up to dealing with Alan's pending divorce and his other issues.

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Jul 03, 2011 Melissa McCauley rated it 4 of 5 stars

If you like a good mystery, this one should fit the bill. The story flashes back and forth between life in a rural English village in World War II and the present day, where the tiny hamlet was at the bottom of a now-dried-up reservoir. The drought also exposes the skeleton of a murder victim, so Inspector Banks and his attractive new partner are brought in to investigate the crime.

Overall, I found it to be a good read; I had minor quibbles about the way the sub-plots were handled and I thought...more

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Apr 21, 2012 Lorraine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, kobo, library-book, mystery, peter-robinson

It's a year since Alan Banks and Sandra have separated and Alan has moved to a small cottage in another village. His superior, Jimmy Riddle, assigns him to investigate a skeleton found in a dried-up reservoir. He meets a local detective, Annie Cabbott. Together they learn that the skeleton was a female and through eliminating women who had lived in Hobb's End, believe it is Gloria Shakelton, a beautiful blond who had lived there during the war.

The back story is told by a manuscript written by Vi...more

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Nov 11, 2010 Jenny rated it 3 of 5 stars

The flashbacks and the characters involved in them were interesting and enjoyable, but far too much time was spent on the private life of Inspector Banks, who seems to have had more brushes with murder, abduction and suicide in his personal life than is believable. How has the man stayed sane?

This is only the second in this series that I have read, so perhaps if I had started at the beginning and worked my way through I might have built up more of a connection with Banks. As it was, I just could...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Allen Batchelar rated it 4 of 5 stars

My favourite series. Full of great characters and logical procedure. I have read 15 books of the current 20, but not in order which sometimes gets confusing so I have created notes to remember in which books Banks was married, who the Chief Superintendent was etc. this book is similar in format to "Piece of My Heart" in that both tell two stories from different time periods. This book introduces DS Cabbot, for those that have read later books in the series. I would have given it 5 stars except f...more

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Aug 27, 2012 Catherine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, kindle, mystery, england

Police procedural in the Yorkshire Dales. DSI Alan Banks investigates a 60-year-old murder brought to light when a once-flooded village is uncovered during an uncharacteristic heat wave. At the same time, he struggles with personal issues -- the end of his marriage, his strained relationship with his son, and a potential romance with a fellow detective with issues of her own. Complex yet likable characters combined with the unusual crime scene in a long-abandoned village made this book very enjo...more

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