A review by ksturgess
The Drowning People by Richard Mason

4.0

This is a reworking of the original novel, that I picked up back in 1999, and I was curious about the new introduction and how the setting was moved to a different time period (the original was set around the early 90s; now reworked to the 1930s). It's slightly briefer, the story is therefore a little pacier but the comparisons to The Secret History (also a hit at the time) remain upon revisiting. A slow burn psychological thriller.