description: On the outs with their superiors, Detective Inspector Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot are lumbered with a case that is supposed to frustrate and annoy them--and find the challenge fascinating. When a reservoir dries out, a flooded village emerges and a boy finds a skeleton buried in an outhouse--by solid police work, and the use of experts, Banks and Cabbot find out who she was and when she died, and then have to find out why. The reader knows more than they do of course--elderly crime writer Vivien has written her own account of what happened during World War Two when she was an intense unhappy teenager, and this is presented in alternate chapters--but there are surprises still in store... An intense sense of period and a celebration of the virtues of solid investigation, this admirable combination of the police procedural and the psychological period thriller was nominated for the Edgar, the US crime writers' best of the year award. Peter Robinson's acute portrayal of his flawed, humane detectives and the charismatic doomed victim the truth of whose death they are trying to uncover has a desperate sadness which comes together in a climax of unexpected power. --Roz KaveneyNarrator: Neil Pearson and Anna Massey
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: MacMillan Audio