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The international debut bestseller from the author of Force of Nature and new novel Exiles.
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
Makes the Australian Outback come alive and breeds respect for its survivors
Bill Clinton
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…
WINNER ABIA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
WINNER ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
WINNER INDIE BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION 2017
WINNER DAVITT AWARDS ADULT FICTION 2017
WINNER DAVITT AWARDS READERS CHOICE 2017
WINNER NED KELLY AWARD BEST FIRST FICTION 2017
MORE PRAISE FOR THE DRY
I devoured it in just over 24 hours… Spellbinding
Ian Rankin
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
Every so often a debut novel arrives that is so tightly woven and compelling it seems the work of a novelist in her prime. That’s what Jane Harper has given us with The Dry
John Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Redemption Road
It’s extremely rare and exciting to read a debut that enthralls from the very first page and then absolutely sticks the landing.
C.J. Box, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Off The Grid
Australian author Harper’s debut is a stunner.
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