In A Dry Season & A Dedicated Man

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In a dry season: In Yorkshire, a dried water reservoir yields the skeleton of a woman who has been dead for fifty years. Inspector Banks learns the victim was a flirtatious World War II farm girl. The area was full of Yanks and her husband was at the front. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has the impossible task of identifying the victim, in a place that no longer exists and whose former residents are scattered to the winds. Anyone else might throw in the towel but Banks sets out to i=uncover the murky past buried beneath a flood of time.