'A mute girl’s unexpected arrival. A small town yet to reckon with closeted skeletons. A whirlwind of fictions, accusations and speculations. The Desert Knows Her Name is another addition to Australia’s burgeoning genre of outback-noir eco-fiction, such as Aoife Clifford’s When We Fall and Jane Harper’s The Dry and Force of Nature. Hills’ rural setting is artfully lush but enveloped in a distrusting atmosphere, paralleling the small towns familiar to Australian crime fiction.' (Introduction)