![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Falk never knew where Luke really was, and now he fears that if Luke killed Ellie all those years ago maybe he really is responsible for the deaths of his wife and son now. Adding to the tension is Falk’s own history with the town, and with Luke himself when they were teenagers one of their classmates, Ellie, was found dead and weighed down by stones in a nearby river, and Falk and Luke made a pact to say that they were together that day. Working together to follow the breadcrumbs of evidence that Luke didn’t kill his family, Falk and Raco trace his steps in the days and hours leading up to the deaths of the Hadler family. Falk finds local sergeant Greg Raco at the Hadler’s property looking for clues to confirm his suspicion that something isn’t right with the case. It seems that the two years of harsh drought had finally become too much for Luke, and Aaron is counting down the hours until the funeral is over and he can leave the small rural town that drove him and his father out when he was a teenager.īut all is not what it seems. Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry is a tense, brilliant thriller, and sits firmly within the rapidly growing subgenre of Aussie rural thrillers.ĪFP detective Aaron Falk returns to his home town of Kiewarra to attend the funeral of his adolescent best friend, Luke Hadler, who has recently died in what appears to be a murder-suicide of his wife, young son and himself. ![]()
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