They ask Falk to look into the circumstances around the death.įalk is a cop but one whose day to day work involves financial crime rather than vicious murder-suicides with shotguns. But Hadler's parents, once almost surrogate parents to Falk himself, don't believe their son had it in him to harm his family. The rationale given for Hadler's act is the desperate state of the farming economy in a one-industry town brought low by a years-long drought that threatens the very survival of Kiewarra. Falk is reluctantly back in town to attend the funeral of his schooldays best friend Luke Hadler, a farmer who has killed himself and his family in a murder-suicide. While Melbourne might be home to Falk, it is not the setting for The Dry, in which he returns home to Kiewarra, the Victoria outback town he grew up in. I hope it is only the first, as The Dry announces Jane Harper as a writer capable of delivering atmospheric plots which pack a sharp and accurate punch. (That's Melbourne Australia rather than Derbyshire, for the 2 per cent of year who immediately thought of an East Midlands murder mystery). The Dry, which earned the Sunday Times' crime fiction of the year title for 2017, is billed as the first in a series featuring Aaron Falk, a Melbourne-based detective.
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