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ruthiella 's review for:
In a Dry Season
by Peter Robinson
The 10th book in a series featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks; I haven’t read any of the previous books. The title references a drought which has plagued the Yorkshire countryside, as well as a dry spell in the personal life of Inspector Banks; his wife has left him and his career is in shambles.
This was almost two books really. One is Bank’s investigation of a cold case: A reservoir, which was created in the 1950’s by flooding a valley right over an abandoned village (like some sort of underwater Brigadoon), has now dried up due to the drought, revealing a long buried skeleton of a young woman. The second story line is the recollections from the war years in the village by a former inhabitant.
If this book is supposed to the best in the series, it didn’t knock my socks off. The story did keep my interest however, despite its length and digressions into the personal lives of the detectives.
This was almost two books really. One is Bank’s investigation of a cold case: A reservoir, which was created in the 1950’s by flooding a valley right over an abandoned village (like some sort of underwater Brigadoon), has now dried up due to the drought, revealing a long buried skeleton of a young woman. The second story line is the recollections from the war years in the village by a former inhabitant.
If this book is supposed to the best in the series, it didn’t knock my socks off. The story did keep my interest however, despite its length and digressions into the personal lives of the detectives.