5 stars for The Dry (Aaron Falk book 1) by Jane Harper.
It has been a long time since I gobble up a book in 2 days' time. Wth a title that sounds dry and dully factual, the story is surprisingly not. Instead, The Dry has this addictive page turning effect, especially when I do not want to be left high and dry in a small, unforgiving town where people are hurt by buried secrets.
Well.. the secrets have now been unearthed and the mystery unravelled since I have obviously reach the end of this thriller. But even so, I am still reeling from the grisly discovery of the truths amidst the author's ingenuity to weave such a simple yet complicated debut novel.
This is definitely one author to look out for.
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The Dry is set in Kiewarra, a small farming community a few hours from Melbourne in south-eastern Australia, which for the past two years has been drought-stricken.
Everyone is scared and worried about money and drought, no one knows quite what to do or say except keep a watch on one another, trying to figure out who may be the next to snap.
And then, a family is shot dead. Aaron Falk, an old friend - who has since moved to Melbourne for the last twenty years - of the deceased, is asked to look into the deaths.
But in a town that holds a grudge against Falk who harbours his own secret and lies and fear, twenty years is twenty years with some things that are not so easily forgotten.
Truths. Half-truths. Omissions. Lies. Read The Dry to discern which is which through Aaron Falk's third person perspective.
Publisher: Flatiron Books; Reprint edition
Publication date: 2 Jan 2018
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Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well…
When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge.
And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds start bleeding into fresh ones. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret… A secret Falk thought long-buried… A secret which Luke’s death starts to bring to the surface...
*Blurb from author's website*
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