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The dry / Jane Harper.

By: Series: Aaron Falk. 1 Publication details: Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan Pan Macmillan Australia, 2016.Description: 342 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781743548059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.4 23
Awards:
  • Winner 2017 Indie Book of the Year & Debut Fiction. Winner 2017 Gold ABIA for Book of the Year and ABIA Fiction Book of the Year. Winner 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Winner 2017 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction Novel by a woman. Winner 2017 CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel.
Summary: Who really killed the Hadler family? Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well... 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. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Crime Fiction | Awarded Crime Fiction | 1st in Series - Crime Fiction
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Crime HAR Falk Bk.1 Available 064741
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"A desperate act in a small town with big secrets".

Who really killed the Hadler family? Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well... 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. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. 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.

Winner 2017 Indie Book of the Year & Debut Fiction.
Winner 2017 Gold ABIA for Book of the Year and ABIA Fiction Book of the Year.
Winner 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.
Winner 2017 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Fiction Novel by a woman.
Winner 2017 CWA Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel.

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