Patricia Wolf: Outback, 9781471411700, Embla Books, Paperback , I read the ebook.

While waiting for the publication of the new Jane Harper: Exiles,  I discovered  Patricia Walker to satisfy my appetite for Australian noir crime writing and boy, does she deliver! 

"Outback" is set around DS Walker, who is taking time off from work to care for his dying grandmother, she lives in the Outback where she helped raise him. Walker is called in unexpectedly to investigate the disappearence of two German tourist, Rita and Berndt,  who vanished while on their way to work at a farm. He finds town folks less than cooperative  and only when Rita's older sister arrives, a police woman from Berlin, is there some movement in the case. Ds Walker suspects organized crime operation might be setting up a meth operation in this deserted area and that Berndt and Rita's disappearence is somehow connected.... 

I do not want to reveal more but this is dark,  really fast paced atmospheric  thriller which I devoured, not only for Jane Harper and Gary Disher fans. Ds Walker is a very likeable character,  I just downloaded her second novel, Paradise which features him this time of the Australian Gold Coast..