In A Dry Season, Peter Robinson
In A Dry Season, Peter Robinson
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In A Dry Season
A Masterful Crime Thriller of Dark Secrets and Murder in a Lost Yorkshire Village

Author: Peter Robinson

Narrator: Ron Keith

Unabridged: 16 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/12/2004

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Peter Robinson delivers an unforgettable, compelling thriller of a lost village and the deadly secrets that are unearthed upon its discovery—secrets that include murder. In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservoir have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom—ruins that house the unidentified bones of a murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a sadistic killer who has escaped detection for half a century. For the dark secrets of Hobb's End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman, even though the town that bred them has died and its former residents have been scattered to far places—or even to their graves. Demonstrating once again why Peter Robinson is a master of suspense, In a Dry Season is a powerful, insightful, and searing novel of past crimes and present evil.

About Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson is an award-winning author whose novels have been named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page Turner of the Week by People magazine. He is widely known for his series of Inspector Banks novels, including In a Dry Season, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and won the Anthony Award. Peter was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, but has lived in North America for nearly twenty-five years. He now divides his time between North America and the United Kingdom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on August 18, 2021

Peter Robinson - image from Mystery Sequels When Thornfield Reservoir is drained by demand during a blistering summer five decades after it was created by flooding a valley and burying the village of Hobb’s End, a lad on an explore plunges through the roof of an uncovered building and finds the rema......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 06, 2022

You’ve got to like someone who listens to Arvo Pärt’s Stabat Mater! Chief Inspector Alan Banks, CID, recently transferred from London to Eastvale, a town in the Yorkshire Dales, is no Harry Bosch or Harry Rebus. But then Eastvale isn’t New York City, London or Edinburgh either. Alan Banks is a real......more

Goodreads review by Bill on December 13, 2018

When a summer drought depletes a reservoir & uncovers a small village, a human skeleton is discovered amidst the ruins. Peter Robinson's 10th DCI Banks novel gives us two stories, set sixty years apart. Each is meticulously plotted & as well thought out as you would expect from this ever improving a......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on July 11, 2016

One of the top Banks'! A really cold case and with the inspector himself out in the cold in more ways than one. We get to know a lot of background and not seldom does his own history and life mirror the happenings of the past that Banks is called upon to investigate. All that and the introduction of......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on February 15, 2016

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks remains in the doghouse to which the jealous, stubborn, petty Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle confined him in the previous novel, Blood At The Root. In this novel, Banks investigates a decades’ old skeleton exposed when the Thornfield Reservoir dries out during a su......more

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