Inspector Banks · Book 10

In a Dry Season

by Peter Robinson

Published
1 January 1999
Pages
439
ISBN-13
9780330420679
Type
novel

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About this book

In a Dry Season (1999), 439 pages, is the tenth Inspector Banks novel, following Dead Right and preceding Cold Is the Grave. It continues Peter Robinson's long-running study of secrets that surface decades later in the fictional Yorkshire Dales.

Its place in Inspector Banks

In a Dry Season is book 10 in the Inspector Banks series. It follows Dead Right. It is followed by Cold Is the Grave. See the full Inspector Banks reading order.

Alan Banks left a burnt-out career in the Metropolitan Police for what he expected to be a quieter posting in the fictional Yorkshire market town of Eastvale — and instead spent nearly three decades investigating murders that dig into the fault lines of small-town and rural England: old grudges, class resentment, and secrets that surface decades later. Peter Robinson wrote Banks as a genuine music and whisky enthusiast whose personal tastes colour the prose, and let his home life evolve in real time across the…

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