Falk wasn’t welcomed back to town, not that he expected to be after the way things were when he left, but things were even worse than he would have imagined. Hadler’s parents were like family to Aaron as a boy so when they ask him to look over Luke’s financials to see if he can see anything that looks suspicious he can’t bring himself to say no, and Luke’s dad has an ace up his sleeve just in case he’s tempted to say no.Ī one night stay in Kiewarra to attend the funerals before heading back to Melbourne extended out to a couple of days, then to a week. The murder/suicide rocks the small town of Kiewarra and brings Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk back for the funerals in a purely personal capacity.įalk and Hadler were childhood best friends and they kept in touch, sporadically, after Falk and his father were run out of town two decades earlier. The drought is taking it’s toll on the land, the town and the people so it’s utterly devastating when Luke Hadler, one of their own, turns a gun on his wife and child before himself. Set in a small outback farming town suffering terribly through the drought we find that things are not always as they seem. With a debut this convincing Harper will be a name to watch. The Dry is a gripping suspense debut by Australian Jane Harper, and it was captivating.
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