![]() ![]() The Dry won the Victorian Premier’s Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2015, has now been sold to 20 publishers worldwide and optioned as a film by American actor Reece Witherspoon’s company. The expectations were always going to be high. Both are not just great crime fiction, but great Australian novels. Both are books that capture something profound about the Australian landscape and the people who inhabit it. The Broken Shore by Peter Temple was one, Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher another. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret … A secret Falk thought long-buried … A secret which Luke’s death starts to bring to the surface …Įvery now and then an Australian crime novel comes along to stop your breath and haunt your dreams. 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. ![]()
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