Red Dirt Road set in Australia S R White
One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. Now is that not a premise or is that not a premise?
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Boarding Pass Information: Unamurra (fictional)
Author guide: S R White
Genre: thriller
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The author of Hermit is back again.
Detective Dana Russo is also back. She is unique in that she has a plastic knee cap so perhaps can’t be quite as active as she would like. However, her boss doesn’t exactly help and he sets her cases he knows she can’t probably do. Like this one – solve a murder in the small dirt town of Unmurra where noone talks to anyone and where if there is a crime, it’s blown under the dust and forgotten about.
However, this is where the boss sends her and oh, only two days to solve a murder. There’s only 50 people living here but it might as well be 500 judging by how helpful they all are. Two men have been killed and strung up like that poor policeman at the end of Silence of the Lambs. Gruesome stuff.
The way she was pushed into this place and then left to effectively drown was a very compelling part of the novel. You can both see and hear the tumbleweed. So you start to wonder what secrets the town is holding. Even the local police never got very far with it all although one officer does help in the current investigation.
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There’s a key denouement to the entire plot and it’s interesting to see play out. So many twists and unexpected details I never saw coming.
What is key for me more than ever is the fabulous and all immersive sense of location. The dust storms, the drought-cracked soil, the miles from anywhere vibe and the sheer remoteness of it all. Wonderfully evoked.
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