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Red Dirt Road

Detective Dana Russo, Book 3

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Red Dirt Road

By: S. R. White
Narrated by: Helen Walsh
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 One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects.

In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pub town deep in the outback, two men are savagely murdered a month apart - their bodies elaborately arranged like angels.

With no witnesses, no obvious motives and no apparent connections between the killings, how can lone police officer Detective Dana Russo - flown in from hundreds of kilometres away - possibly solve such a baffling, brutal case?

Met with silence and suspicion from locals who live by their own set of rules, Dana must take over a stalled investigation with only a week to make progress.

But with a murderer hiding in plain sight, and the parched days rapidly passing, Dana is determined to uncover the shocking secrets of this forgotten town - a place where anyone could be a killer.

A gripping and vividly atmospheric story from the international bestseller, this is a searing story perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Garry Disher.

Praise for S. R. White:

'A rising star of Australian crime fiction ' SUNDAY TIMES
'A taut, beautifully observed slow-burner with an explosive finish' Peter May
'Original, compelling and highly recommended' Chris Hammer
'It draws you in - and rewards with a truly powerful ending' HEAT
'This slow-burn novel catches light' THE SUN
'The story takes place over less than 48 hours but the pace is slow-burn, relying on considerable psychological depth...the denouement hits like a knockout punch WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
'A dark and compulsive read' WOMAN & HOME

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Critic reviews

PRAISE FOR S. R. WHITE:
A rising star of Australian crime fiction
S. R. White is the real deal (CHRIS HAMMER, author of SCRUBLANDS)
A taut, beautifully observed slow-burner with an explosive finish (PETER MAY)
It draws you in - and rewards with a truly powerful ending
The denouement hits like a knockout punch
This slow-burn novel catches light
All stars
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I usually love books set in the Australian outback but it was very difficult to judge this story due to the extremely poor narration.

Struggled to finish

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really enjoyed the story. lots of twists snd I didn't guess the ending.
the narration was a bit strange, pauses in the wrong places but as the book was so good I managed to overcome this!

gripping snd original story

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I love the Aussie Noir genre so was really pleased to come across this but it was hugely disapponting. The premise of the story is bizarre and beyond belief. The denoument is a damp squib in terms of its credibility and the heroine smugly pleased with her apparently superior detection skills. Much of the narration is conducted through turgid repetitive dialogue and it's very simple to work out who the criminal is. The narrator is shockingly bad at almost every slightly unusual pronunciation . One of her worst faults is that her stresses in an ordinary sentence are often in the wrong place.

Plodding and tedious beyond belief

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