A murder case and the hero's youth memories are cross-narrated. The idea is good, but it is difficult to implement, because the two are not well combined, resulting in a lack of overall plot tension.
Overall it's okay, but there are a few points where the narrative progression still seems blunt.
1. The principal is addicted to gambling. In such a small town, he should be able to hide it soon. The hole of 70,000 yuan will soon be exposed. So if the principal wants to kill someone, he should kill the school's accountant, that is, Luke's wife. There's no reason to kill Luke first. Unless the principal planned the plot of Luke killing his wife and children and then committing suicide from the beginning, but the principal is obviously not a professional killer, so it is impossible to plan the murder so carefully.
2. A homicide in a small town, even in Australia, is unlikely to be solved by a police officer in the town empty-handed, and there will be technical detection methods to assist, so the fingerprints of the guns will be extracted, as long as the fingerprints are extracted and compared to the town Everyone on here, the murderer will soon be found.
3. As an ordinary person, the principal killed Luke with his bare hands, and then took the wall gun to Luke's house to shoot his wife and son. There will be bloodstains on his body, and his fingerprints will also be left on the walls of Luke's house, because Without police support, the only local police officer seemed to be completely incapable of handling the case, so he completely ignored it.
4. After attacking Luke with stones or killing his wife and children, the principal had blood on his body. How did he explain it to his wife when he got home? Wife knew but hid it?
5. The other female classmate has always been on good terms with Luke. Why did he immediately have feelings for each other when he met the male protagonist who returned to his hometown? It's unreasonable.
6. Ellie planned to run away from home because of her complaint to her father. How did her father know that she was by the river? Killed her after chasing to the river? I can't tell. Even if he accidentally kills his own daughter, the father will not drive after the male protagonist and his father when they leave. Decades later, I won't scold the male protagonist as soon as I see it in a bar.
7. Even in Australia many years ago, a young girl would not have died and no one would care, especially if the family believed that it was murder.
8. Is the affair between the town doctor and the farmer who hit the rabbit relevant to the whole story?
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