5/29/2023 0 Comments The dry novel by jane harperThe plot is fairly unremarkable and it pushes your suspension of disbelief to have the resolution of both the intertwined mysteries - the Hadler family tragedy and Ellie’s death - hinge on quirky ways of reading mysterious notes.Īs far as the characters are concerned, you have the oafish town bullies, the best friends with dark secrets, the damsels in distress, the faithful sidekicks, and so on. But it’s not a book that bears a lot of detailed scrutiny. I thoroughly enjoyed The Dry and polished it off in a couple of days. Complicating matters is the animosity of the town’s residents, who ran Falk out of town twenty years earlier after suspecting him of the murder of his former girlfriend, Ellie Deacon. The Dry describes the return of Australian Federal Police detective Aaron Falk to his hometown of Kiewarra in rural Victoria for the funeral of Luke Hadler - Falk’s best friend when they were growing up, who has apparently committed suicide after murdering his wife and child.Īs you might expect, things are not what they seem and Falk is persuaded to look into the case by Hadler’s grieving parents, desperate to clear their son’s name. I don’t usually bother with big screen adaptations of books I’ve enjoyed but I’ll be making an exception for The Dry, due out in early 2020 and based on the outback crime novel of the same name by Jane Harper.
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