Tank Water

- Blurb -

James Brandt can' t decide who' s considered worse in his hometown: aboriginals, vegetarians, or gays. He was two out of three, so he got out early. He' s back in town for the first time in twenty years because cousin Tony' s body has been found under the Kippen Bridge, although James is unsure if the Brandts ever worked out their favourite son made the blacklist long before he apparently jumped to his death. The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James' s journalistic curiosity - and his anxiety - which he' s starting to suspect came from the same place somewhere in his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it' s the brutal homophobic attack James survives that draws him into a hunt for the reasons one lonely Kippen farm boy in every generation kills himself. Standing in the way is James' s father, the town' s recently retired top cop, who' s not prepared to investigate crimes no-one reckons have taken place. James must play nice with family, avoid putting pressure on police, accept the media just aren' t interested, and use every newshound' s trick he ever learned in order to uncover the circumstances that led to Tony' s untimely death. . . That' s if he lives longer than twenty-four hours in this remote community that would prefer he' d never returned.