The dry - Jane Harper

 This was an enjoyable read, though not one that would make my top of the year. The flashbakcs for instance I found more or less repetative and unnecessary. I am picky about thrillers; I do not read much of them, so when I pick one I tend to choose the ones in which something really catches my interest. In this case the backdrop of Drought in middle Australia.
 When Jane Harper moved from the north of England to southeastern Australia, her new home was enduring its worst drought on record. As a reporter on the Geelong Advertiser in the late Noughties, she would visit parched rural farming communities in the state of Victoria, desperate after more than a decade of poor rainfall. I read in the Sunday Times, so she used the tip everyone gets on a creative writing course: write what you know about.