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In a Dry Season
by Peter Robinson
This book was particularly fascinating from my own point of view. When a body is discovered during a dry summer in a town that was emptied and made part of a reservoir, Banks is told to get out there and investigate. It's supposed to be a punishment. Since I haven't been reading them in order, I don't know what he did, but it really doesn't matter anyway. The body turns out to be that of a woman who was a "Land Girl," one of many young women who left English cities during WWII to work on farms where the son(s) had been called up for duty. Gloria is both beautiful and full of personality and before long falls in love with a young man in the village. They marry shortly after he is told that he is being called up for duty. He came back a ruined man, and it was assumed that she had run away because she couldn't face having to take care of him for the rest of her life. However, as is typical of Peter Robinson, there is far more than meets the eye. The reader gets the benefit of the memories of Gloria's sister-in-law as well, so we know what went on. Not long ago, I saw a series on Netflix called Land Girls, so this book was't even more interesting. This is definitely one of Robinson's best IMO.