“You drive one, two, three hours out of Melbourne, and by the time you cross four you’re into the Mallee region and the landscape changes immensely,” Connolly says. Winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished ManuscriptBefore making the film, Connolly hit the road with Bana so the pair could immerse themselves in the world of the book.
Recommend this one to fans of James Lee Burke and Robert Crais. Box, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Off The GridĪustralian author Harper's debut is a stunner. Told with heart and guts and an authentic sense of place that simply cannot be faked, The Dry is the debut of the year.Ĭ.J. It's extremely rare and exciting to read a debut that enthralls from the very first page and then absolutely sticks the landing.
John Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Redemption Road That's what Jane Harper has given us with The Dry, a story so true to setting and tone it seemed I fell asleep in Virginia only to wake in Australian heat. Ī suspenseful tale of sound and fury as riveting as it is horrificĮvery so often a debut novel arrives that is so tightly woven and compelling it seems the work of a novelist in her prime. A secret which Luke's death starts to bring to the surface. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge.Īnd as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. 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. If one of their own broke under the strain, well. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. "One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. The Dry is a wonderful crime novel that shines a light into the darkest corner of a sunburnt country." Michael Robotham "You will feel the heat, taste the dust and blink into the glare.
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