Right from the start this book grabbed my attention and held me captive right to the very end. With the drought crippling everyone financially, emotionally and mentally, tensions are high in the town of Kiewerra. Set in a small outback town during the worst drought the country has ever seen, Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns home for the funeral of his childhood best friend and finds himself amid a cesspit of boiling tensions, suspicions and allegations. Despite being Harper’s debut novel, and the first in her Aaron Falk series, this book absolutely blew me away.

The Dry by Jane Harper … I am still so much in awe with, and fascinated by, this book. A secret Luke’s death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret.

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.įederal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.īut as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family.

A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

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