![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The circumstances are suitably ghoulish for a book that’s this much of a grabber: Falk’s onetime best friend, Luke Hadler, has apparently killed his wife and young son before turning his shotgun on himself. As “The Dry” opens, he is back for 18 hours, tops (or so he tells himself). She has jampacked her swift debut thriller with sneaky moves that the reader has to track with care.Īt 36, Falk has been a pariah in the town, Kiewarra, since his teenage years, when he was forced to leave town for reasons that are, of course, not initially shared with the reader. Harper is not one to drop a fact like that without using it later. It’s a region that hasn’t seen rain in two years, and the novel’s main character, Aaron Falk, is jolted to see that a rushing river he remembers from his youth has all but disappeared. Jane Harper’s “ The Dry” is set in a parched Australian farming community within a day’s drive of Melbourne. ![]()
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