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micrummey 's review for:
In A Dry Season
by Peter Robinson
Another DCI Banks police procedural. In this a body is discovered in a dried up reservoir which when flooded concealed a village in north Yorkshire.
In this Robinson effectively writes two books in the one volume as Gwen Shackleton writes her memoirs that cover a time towards the end of the second world when she meets her future sister in law.
Once more Robinson slowly builds the plot and the relationships between Banks, his family and work colleagues and In A Dry Season we are introduced to Anne Cabot.
One thing I did notice, in making one of the characters a successful crime writer it allowed Robinson to have a dig at crime writers. It turns out Banks is not fond of the crime novel as writers get the procedure the police have to follow wrong.
Robinson better not do that in the future or he could be disliked by his own creation.
In this Robinson effectively writes two books in the one volume as Gwen Shackleton writes her memoirs that cover a time towards the end of the second world when she meets her future sister in law.
Once more Robinson slowly builds the plot and the relationships between Banks, his family and work colleagues and In A Dry Season we are introduced to Anne Cabot.
One thing I did notice, in making one of the characters a successful crime writer it allowed Robinson to have a dig at crime writers. It turns out Banks is not fond of the crime novel as writers get the procedure the police have to follow wrong.
Robinson better not do that in the future or he could be disliked by his own creation.