I feel privileged to have found such a golden story to catalogue in my mind so early in the year the complex web of deceit and lies in this farmland of Australia completely captivated me to the point I actually found myself trying to piece together the various mysteries while doing other daily activities. If someone asked me how I felt a police procedural should be written and what details should be included I would simply hand them a copy of this book and tell them to read it. Please don't misunderstand, this isn't a break neck thriller that you rush to read in one sitting it's more the slow, delicate sipping of a fine wine that you tend to gradually chug more quickly as you reach the bottom of the bottle. Your attention I have it, right? Those are powerful opening lines, and when placed within the full fledged prologue you have one of the most intriguing and gripping introductions to a book I have ever read. To them there was little difference between a carcass and a corpse.' 'It wasn't as though the farm hadn't seen death before, and the blowflies didn't discriminate. This was a perfect example of a book being extremely dark and terrifying without being overly graphic for the shock value. Half the fun of this story is, even if you guess at the who, you probably won't guess the why until it's revealed.

The writing is excellent, the pacing was quick with fully fleshed characters, and the ending was satisfying without being too cut and dry. I know it's early days, but I have a feeling this will be a top read of 2017 for me I'll go as far as saying if I had read it last year it would have been in my top 2016 reads.

The dry by jane harper