The Dry Review
I have wanted to read this book for a while now, ever since I have watched the movie based on it. Finally, I found a used copy in a charity shop and decided to purchase it. It has been a while since I have watched a movie, at least a few years, so I have forgotten some details, but enough have remained in my mind that I’m sure it has impacted my reading experience, especially when it came to the big reveal towards the end of the novel. Jane Harper’s debut novel ‘The Dry’ follows Aaron Falk, as he hesitantly returns to his hometown of Kiewarra, a small farming community in the outback of Australia. He is now a federal investigator, working on financial cases, but when he gets a letter from his childhood best friend’s father, asking him to return, he cannot refuse it. Luke Hadler, his friend, is being accused of murdering his wife and a young son and then himself, but as Falk begins to investigate this more, he realizes that everything is not as it seems in this small, crumbling co...