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The Dry

The Dry 12

by Jane Harper
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/02/2017
5/5 Rating 12 Reviews

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Winner Abia Book of the Year 2017

Who Really Killed the Hadler Family?

It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funerals and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Because Falk and his childhood friend Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth ...

"I devoured it in just over 24 hours ... Spellbinding" Ian Rankin

"A breathless pageturner ... A secret on every page" The New York Times

"One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read ... Read it!" David Baldacci

"Devastating debut ... a suspenseful tale of sound and fury" Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A nail-biting thriller ... this fine debut will keep readers on edge and awake long past bedtime." Kirkus, starred review

ISBN:
9781925481372
9781925481372
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-02-2017
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x22mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Jane Harper

Jane Harper was born in Manchester in the UK, and moved to Australia with her family at age eight. She spent six years in Boronia, Victoria, and during that time gained Australian citizenship. Returning to the UK with her family as a teenager, she lived in Hampshire before studying English and History at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

On graduating, she completed a journalism entry qualification and got her first reporting job as a trainee on the Darlington & Stockton Times in County Durham. Jane worked for several years as a senior news journalist for the Hull Daily Mail, before moving back to Australia in 2008. She worked first on the Geelong Advertiser, and in 2011 took up a role with the Herald Sun in Melbourne.

In 2014, Jane submitted a short story which was one of 12 chosen for the Big Issue's annual Fiction Edition. That inspired her to pursue creative writing more seriously, and that year she applied for the Curtis Brown Creative online 12-week novel writing course. She was accepted with a submission for the book that would become The Dry. Jane lives in St Kilda with her husband and daughter.

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Great reading count,nt put it down.

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Great well written Aussie tale - well worth the read

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I could not put this book down and read it in a day. It keeps you guessing all the way through and is written in such a way that you feel the emotion coming off the pages for all the characters. The descriptive nature of the Australian landscape is true to life and gives you a great visual as you are reading the story. And just when you think you have worked out who done it there is a twist out of left field which will blindside you. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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I approached this book with mixed feelings. Friends had told me how much they enjoyed the story and style of the author. I found that it was difficult to put down and I became very involved with the characters. I was able to borrow Force of Nature from the local library and enjoyed that too. I'll be looking out other titles by this Australian author.

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I loved this book. Captivating, great read. I couldn’t wait to read it every nigh & found myself “one more chapter”, resulting in many late nights past midnight... whoops! Do yourself a favour & read this.
I have only read this book by Jane Harper, but I will be buying her other 3 as well. Love a good Aussie book !!!

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What a fantastic book set in Australia. Kept me engaged and thinking the whole time. Well done to this author, a great book and a great read. Would highly recommend.

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Compelling story from start to finish with beautifully entwined characters and plot. I am now a big fan and will look for other Jane Harper books.

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I always enjoy Jane Harper books.

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Never have I felt so chilled and so clammy as I did reading this book – that first chapter will stay with me for some time as it was so immediately vivid and evocative, I could see, hear, smell, taste my surroundings. I even started to itch with those flies! As the landscape opened up and the story unfurled, it was slowly memerising like a piece of plastic thrown on to a fire, it fizzed, twisted into one shape and then took on another, hissing all the while with mystery and intrigue. This was good. Hauntingly good.

The landscape created and nestled the story in its dark heart. I could see each and every dusty street, feel the anger of the landowners -some were only fleeting characters but as richly drawn as the main ones. There were two sides to this claustrophobic and isolation – both the town itself and that of Falk who returns to the town. Everyone was a stranger to each other in the end but the roots of the past ran deep – I could liken the book to a tree which sits alone in the outback, dying but with the twisted and tangled roots below slowly strangling it – that’s if the heat doesn’t kill it first.

Such a dark and brooding book, very well paced with a gripping conclusion. The tension was up and down to catch you off guard and it had a kind of mesmering feel to it all – a heat wave of emotions that gripped from the start. A great early read of the year and one that’s definitely going on my best of 2017 list!

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Thoroughly good read with a strong plot.
Would highly recommend.

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Perfectly paced and a real page turner.

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I really enjoyed this book, it was one that was hard to put down, had no flat spots, and kept me guessing what really happened right until the end. The Style of writing was easy to read and the flash back sections bought the characters depth while also developing the relationships between them. As someone who lives in a small country town, the only disappointment was the portrayal of country life as being very negative without balancing that with the positives, in particular, the sense of community which, even in the worst times, makes living there so great. I am looking forward to reading more of Jane Harpers books.

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