Sentences with phrase «scouring scrubland»

But in a way that calls to mind the recent Jon McGregor novel Reservoir 13, it is pricklingly attuned to the bleak commonalities of all high - profile British crime cases: the tearful press conferences in village halls, the straggly lines of volunteers scouring scrubland for clues, the bouquets of dead flowers sellotaped to telegraph poles and fence posts, and most of all the public hunger for answers.