In a Dry Season
When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past.
Dry Bones That Dream
It was 2.47am when Chief Inspector Alan Banks arrived at the barn and saw the body of Keith Rothwell for the first time.
Only hours earlier two masked men had walked the mild-mannered accountant out of his farmhouse and blasted him with a shotgun. It was clinical. Clearly this is a professional hit but Keith Rothwell was hardly the sort of person to make deadly enemies. Or was he?
The investigation soon raises more questions than answers. The name Robert Calvert comes up. Who exactly is he? The more Banks scratches the surface, the more he wonders what lies beneath the veneer of the apparently happy Rothwell family. When his old sparring partner, Detective Superintendent Richard Burgess, arrives from Scotland Yard, the case takes yet another unexpected twist...