Picked up at random (the way I usually buy books) Scrublands turned out to be an excellent read well worth the added label "Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month. I don't know when that was must have missed the paper that day but this tale of a reporter becoming involved in the town of Riversend and it's people was extraordinarily gripping.
A year ago the local Priest went berserk shooting five men with a rifle and with great accuracy until put down by the local cop. How has the town fared since then? Martin Scarsfield is sent by his paper to find out.
As he investigates this drought-ridden backwater the mystery deepens, more crime appears and a life is saved but there is so much else going in this tale of intrigue, rape and betrayal. Martin who had survived a three day ordeal locked in the boot of a car in Gaza until rescued could make or break his career in this small rundown town,
There is so much more to this shooting than meets the eye. And why is the ASIO here? A real page turner.
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