num_pages: 502
description: A searing suspense from award-winning author Peter Robinson - an insightful and haunting novel of past crimes and present evil.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 an evil secret from the past.
language: English
title: In A Dry Season
titlecomplete: In A Dry Season (Inspector Banks, #10)
characters: Sergeant Jim Hatchley, George Henderson, Brenda Hamilton, Dr. Jenny Fuller, Betty Goodall, Sergeant Whitkirk, Sandra Banks, Graham Marshall, Millicent Cummings, Detective Superintendent Davidson, Arthur Winchester, Edgar Konig, Elsie Patterson, Annie Cabbot, Vivian Elmsley, Gwen Shackleton, Adam Kelly, Brian Banks, Edith Kilnsey, Michael Stanhope, Dr. Ioan Williams, Brad Szikorski, Sean (Sandra Banks), Ray Cabbot, Dr. Jennings, Alice Poole, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Ruby Kettering, Ronald Bingham, Dr. Charles Stewart Glendenning, John Webb, Francis Henderson, Gloria Stringer, Michael Shackleton, Jeremiah “Jimmy” Riddle, Inspector Harmond, Jem Hylton, Superintendent Gristhorpe, Geoff Turner, Wayne Dalton, Cynthia Garmen, Dr. Burns, Charlie Markleson, Billy Joe Farrell, Stan Patterson, Ken Blackstone, Frederick Kilnsey
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Banks, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 10373
places: Hobb's End, Yorkshire, England, Harkside, Yorkshire, England, Yorkshire, England, London, England
series: Inspector Banks
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
category: Romans étrangers, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Viking