Status Updates From Bad Country

This book is kinda strange as the punctuation is missing...and I don't understand why. There are no quotation marks around the spoken dialogue, which makes reading the book a bit more difficult. I also don't understand why it's missing?? It's from a publishing company so...??

But the story, set in Arizona, starts out right away with a body lying out in the "middle of nowhere" except the main character lives there.