Description:ISBN 1405090898 / Author: Peter Robinson / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Narrators: Neil Pearson, Anna Massey / During a blistering summer, drought has depleted the precious resources of Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering the remains of a small village called Hobb's End - ... more

In a Dry Season (Audio CD) ... 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.

Newest Review: ... by Peter Robinson before and have frequently skipped over them in the library because I just didn't fancy reading about a ... more

 ... middle aged British policeman in some remote part of north west England which may well be due to the fact that I come from that area and familiarity breeds contempt. However, reading the blurb on the library website, the story seemed quite appealing. There are a couple of flooded valleys in that area and I remember as a child being taken to see the graveyard at Thrusscross where my great-grandparents and two of their children were buried because the little valley was due to become a reservoir and also going to see a...more