“If I'd known, I would have done things differently. It was too late for that now. Some things had to be lived with.”

Started good, stayed good: can’t beat that. The sweltering heat, cloying drought, small town tension, old heartache, and new murders form the fist that lands this chin punch of a story. Harper sacrifices no style for accessibility: this was a really easy to follow, thorough, near perfect crime drama. 

Low risk, high reward. Not bland, exactly, but it was lacking the “thrill” part of the promised suspenseful narrative. Slow build, perfectly reasonable ending, but not a lot of “wow.”

4.5/5 Looks like the books got turned into a movie starring the dreamy Eric Bana so I know what I’m doing with my evening 😍