Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (UK 2020)

From the Publisher:
A lost village. Past crimes. Present evil.
During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet is a magical playground... until he unearths a human skeleton.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but DCI Banks is determined to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time...

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. A DCI Banks Novel. Pan, ISBN: 9781509859948 (May, 2020), 501 p., £8.99.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
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.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. An Inspector Banks Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062431257 (August, 2016), 464 p., $14.99.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right.

During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End -- hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet is a magical playground... until he unearths a human skeleton.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim -- a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but DCI Banks is determined to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time...

In A Dry Season is followed by the eleventh book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Cold is the Grave.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. Pan, ISBN: 9781447225539 (August, 2014), 464 p., £7.99.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
In A Dry Season is the tenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Dead Right.

During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End -- hidden from view for over 40 years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet is a magical playground... until he unearths a human skeleton.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is given the impossible task of identifying the victim -- a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but DCI Banks is determined to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time...

In A Dry Season is followed by the eleventh book in this Yorkshire-based crime series, Cold is the Grave.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. Pan, ISBN: 0330392018 (January, 2001), 456 p., £5.99.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped detection for half a century. Because the dark secret of Hobb's End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman even though the town that bred then has died - and long after its former residents have been scattered to far places... or themselves to the grave.

From an acknowledged master writing at the peak of his storytelling powers comes a powerful, insightful, evocative, and searingly suspenseful novel of past crimes and present evil.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. A Novel of Suspense. Avon Books; ISBN: 0380794772 (July, 2000), 468 p., $7.50.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the precious resources of Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - hidden from view for over forty years. For a curious young boy this resurfaced hamlet has become a magical playground... until he unearths a human skeleton.

Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, unpopular with his superiors for having challenged the system once too often, is given the impossible task of identifying the victim - a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose former residents are scattered to the winds.

Anyone else might throw in the towel but, aided by an intuitive detective sergeant, Annie Cabbot, Banks sets out to uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time...

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. Macmillan, ISBN: 0333780639 (April, 2000), 422 p., £16.99.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
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.

Peter Robinson: In a Dry Season. A Novel of Suspense. Avon Twilight, ISBN: 0380975815 (April, 1999), 422 p., $24.00.