One I read for work book club. Very much what it says on the cover - a riveting page turner set in the heat of the Australian near-desert during:a drought. A perfectly functional thriller.
Another working from home day and gloomier weather. Productive on the work front though which was good. Chips and veggie sausages for supper watching Our Flag Means Death.
I will have to read the synopsis and see if it would appeal to me. I get where you are coming from with an our depressing news. Let us hope that the war in Gaza will come to an end, but I have a feeling it might not...