Australian Drought (24)
THE DRY by Jane Harper
Agent Falk returns to his hometown to attend a funeral after hearing that his childhood best friend Luke murdered his wife, son, and then shot himself, but when Luke's parents ask Falk to investigate further, he finds that the case may not be so cut and dry, and an old missing girl case resurfaces. The Australian setting and its severe drought are a great backdrop for this intense adult mystery novel, where tensions run higher in the heat. The ending to the missing girl case is not my favorite type of info-dump resolution, but the overall story lives up to the hype of the genre. Not for those who cannot stomach reading about the murder of a child. (Flatiron, 2017)
Agent Falk returns to his hometown to attend a funeral after hearing that his childhood best friend Luke murdered his wife, son, and then shot himself, but when Luke's parents ask Falk to investigate further, he finds that the case may not be so cut and dry, and an old missing girl case resurfaces. The Australian setting and its severe drought are a great backdrop for this intense adult mystery novel, where tensions run higher in the heat. The ending to the missing girl case is not my favorite type of info-dump resolution, but the overall story lives up to the hype of the genre. Not for those who cannot stomach reading about the murder of a child. (Flatiron, 2017)