And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, secrets from his past and why he left home bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend’s crime. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke’s death threatens to unearth. Tensions in the community are at breaking point when three members of the Hadler family are suddenly brutally murdered.Įveryone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty, but is he just an easy scapegoat? Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation.Īs questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Swept up in the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, the town crackles with seething malice and unvoiced grudges. In the small town of Kiewarra, it hasn’t rained for two years. The Dry burns with oppressive heat on every page. Characters: Kiewarra, Australia Farming community. That inspired her to pursue creative writing, and she was accepted to the Curtis Brown Creative 12-week novel writing course where she wrote The Dry. A small Australian town, parched by endless drought, staggers through the trauma of a mass murder in in Jane Harper’s atmospheric crime thriller. In 2014, Jane submitted a short story which chosen for the Big Issues annual Fiction Edition.
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