Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I just finished a terrific mystery, by Jane Harper, an Australian writer.  "The Lost Man" is her third mystery, and the first two were great reads as well.  This one is so evocative of the outback and the life people lead there, and also who can tolerate that existence and who cannot.  It's in the third person, but the character the reader follows is Nathan, the oldest of three brothers.  They have grown up in isolation, and Nathan is struggling now with his plot of land that is too barren, his divorce, and his relationship with his teenage son.  When his brother Cameron is found out in the desert, dead from the heat, no one can figure out how he got separated miles from his vehicle, still able to start up promptly and filled with water, food, supplies and the means to send a distress signal.  As Harper peels back the layers of memory and interacts with his family again after years of separation, we slowly understand that something insidious is at the root of this family,  Each discovery for Nathan is like a revelation.  He pieces together the clues like a master detective.  I really cared for these people by the end of the book, and appreciated the window in to another world and way of living.