Most of the characters in this book are horrible. The police are everything that people hate about the police. Killing a criminal because they are a criminal is still wrong. Plus there is a large amount of drug use.

Detective Senior Constable Craig Watson is posted to a country town for six months to fill in for the previous detective. No sooner is he in town then he is on the drugs and has a case of a missing girl to investigate and an older car accident that turns out to be not so much of an accident. Plus there is the persistent rain and ever present threat of a flood.

Then all hell lets loose. 

Interspersed with all this is Craig's story that tries to explain why he is on the drugs. But there are problems with the reasoning for this, especially how it started. It doesn't feel real.

Overall, this is enjoyable and the writer has potential. But this is lacking in parts.