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In a dry season

In a dry season

Book 2017

During a blistering summer, drought has depleted Thornfield Reservoir, revealing the ruins of Hobb's End, the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom. When a boy finds a skeleton buried in the ruins, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces the daunting challenge of identifying the victim--a woman who lived in a place that no longer exists, whose neighbours have scattered to the winds ... and whose killer has escaped detection for half a...