In The Dark Places by Peter Robinson

 

In this novel, DCI Alan Banks comes back from an Italian vacation to find crime in the rural areas of his district.  A dogwalker had discovered a huge pool of blood in an abandoned aircraft hanger, so much that someone must have died.  As the team investigates, it starts to uncover a rural crime ring that specializes in stealing large, expensive farm equipment like tractors and spreaders and shipping them overseas for resale.  

A woman reports her husband missing.  Mark grew up next door to the latest farm victim, a man whose tractor was stolen while he and his wife were away.  Is Mark the body they are looking for?  He had left after receiving a phone call from a friend who he helped with occasional work like sheep shearing and roof repair.  Was the body his friend?

This book is the twenty-second in the DCI Alan Banks series.  DI Annie Cabbot finds that she sympathizes with the missing man's wife and perhaps this is the case that will finally get her over the reserve left from her own shooting a year ago.  Winsome meets a man that she could possibly be interested in but that's so rare that she doesn't trust her attraction.  The crime is convoluted with lots of twists and turns but all works out in the end.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.