Never Never by Candice Fox & James Patterson (2017) Little Brown & Company

A quick-paced story in Australia starring a woman sex crimes detective, Harriet Blue (Harry) whose brother has just been arrested as a serial rapist and murderer.  Her boss sends her out of town to a mine in the middle of the desert to investigate the disappearance of several miners.  The mine people are convinced the miners just left – and they will do anything to keep from shutting down the mine.  There are local drug dealers who seem to get a pass, protesters who continually try to sabotage the mine and prostitute who hang around the miner’s places.  And there is a soldier who is hunting miners.