A most enjoyable book! A suspenseful thriller that reveals itself and its characters page by page, like peeling the layers off an onion. But without the tears.

Throughout the story we chip away at each member of the Bright family, who they are, or who they want everyone to think they are. Learning how the past has shaped the present, mixed with the extreme and harsh setting of the Australian outback it made for an interesting story. Where the heat and environment has a fundamental effect on how people complete day to day activities. Having never read any books previously set in the outback I found every fact about the everyday routines absorbing.

A well paced read, with fascinating characters and setting. There was one part to the storyline I anticipated but for all the wrong reasons. Will very happily seek out other books by Jane Harper to read. Oh, I would never want to live there, far to hot for me