Upon arriving to Kiewarra, Falk teams up with the local Sergeant Raco, and the two immediately draw up the list of suspects to the Hadlers murder, for example, Mal Deacon and his nephew Grant Dow, the duo of community troublemakers, as well as Jamie Sullivan, the last person to see Luke alive. It is impossible not to be drawn into this story from the very first pages. All this provides for an emotional and engaging read. What elevates this book above many others is the assured execution of the plot, the particular atmosphere conveyed, as well as some insightful character study. The story is actually quite typical in the genre of “small community” mysteries and not something extraordinary or special at all. The Dry turns out to be a good, atmospheric book, but not necessarily because of the story. But is this open-and-shut case as straightforward as it seems? Aaron Falk, a police officer in Melbourne, arrives to his native town of Kiewarra for the funeral of his estranged pal Luke, and finds out that there is more to the deaths than first meets the eye. The official version is that Luke, the father, killed his family before committing suicide. The setting is a small town of Kiewarra, Australia that was shaken by the gruesome murders of the Hadler family: Luke, Karen and their son Billy. It is a murder mystery with two tragedies at the heart of it. This bestseller is a debut novel of Jane Harper.
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