The Dry

I'm sort of glad I knew very little of this book except i kept finding it in end of year “best of list” in the Crime genre. Plot is hardly original - Protagonist returns to “deliverance” type town set in the remote Outback where the locals still still blame him for a death twenty years previous he finds himself unraveling another murder/suicide. The two story-lines are well handled, the environment is well described. It is an easy read and well paced and satisfying “reveals”. Very strong for a debut novel