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Jane Harper (Author), Steve Shanahan (Narrator), Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd (Publisher)

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Now a major motion picture starring Eric Bana as Aaron Falk.

It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son. Federal police investigator Aaron Falk returns to his hometown for the funerals and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him 20 years earlier. Because Falk and his childhood friend Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth....

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9 hours and 37 minutes
Author

Jane Harper
Narrator

Steve Shanahan
Audible release date

7 July 2016
Language

English
Publisher

Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
ASIN

B01GSHD0F0
Version

Unabridged
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Audiobook
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Listening Length	9 hours and 37 minutes
Author	Jane Harper
Narrator	Steve Shanahan
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	07 July 2016
Publisher	Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01GSHD0F0
Best Sellers Rank	556 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 81 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense (Audible Books & Originals) 169 in Literature & Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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M.Strudwicke

The solution is impossible!

Reviewed in Australia on 19 March 2019

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This is a very good read..... so why only 3 stars?
Well Jane Harper needs an editor. With in this book are 3 major errors.1 of these rather spoils her solution to the murder the other 2 just upsets pendits like me. We will start with the least important. As a book written about Australia she should have realized that here in the bush we have a verandah not a porch....second if you are going out to shoot rabbits you would go in the early morning or the dusk. At lunch time any bunny will be in his burrow keeping cool....actually if you seriously want to try and get rid of Peter Rabbit your method will be a little less kind than a gun....and now the major mistake. The victim is using ,and shot by ,a shotgun. A shotgun uses cartridges not bullets. Sorry Jane but that rather spoils the ending though a bit of thought and a few rewritten chapters would set things right.
I shall still read her next book because she can write but I hope the next one actually makes sense.

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Steve Goulding

Promised much but it failed all victims of domestic abuse

Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2021

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Started well & on 1st reading seemed satisfactory, but left a disquieting feeling of something important missed.
A 2nd reading and some thought exposed the glaring omission.
This story does nothing for the victims of domestic abuse, worse it ignores them perpetuating the silence which allows this terrible crime to continue. Justice is only delivered to the criminal gambler, the abusers are ignored, just as in real life. It is not enough to state the reader will work it out NO the time for the silence, that tacit approval, is long past, and claiming "literary license" is not acceptable, the abusers should have had their exposure documented. A telling and disgusting omission.

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MrsWalshie

Read it...

Reviewed in Australia on 2 January 2020

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This was a great read. Small town, big problems.

Can the folks in Kiewarra put the past behind them when Aaron Falk rolls back in to town? Probably not, seeing as he’s here for his former friend Luke’s funeral, not by choice mind you. No, he was summoned by a note telling him he lied, and Luke lied. To make matters worse Luke is being accused of killing his wife and young son before turning the gun on himself. However, Luke’s mother thinks something more sinister happened and wants Aaron to investigate. Tempers are flaring because people remember the death of a young girl 20 years ago, and the connection to both Luke, and Aaron, which makes the whole situation that much worse.

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ronnie b

The dry

Reviewed in Australia on 1 March 2021

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Easy read and slow. But that’s in its favour. The characters are well developed. Set in dry rural Australia where no rain has fallen in ages. We find Faulk come home to his friends funeral. He finds that time had stood still for some and he had moved on.
Was his mate capable of murdering his wife and child, then turning his rifle on himself.
Something happened years ago, he never knew if his friend had killed a young Local, whilst the town suspected hm or his father. He finds himself in deep wandering who actually did commit the murder from the past.
The simple folk are complex and digging up his past is painful.
A really smooth read on kindle with voice. (Not too Australian). Am looking forward to the movie now.
A really enjoyable read

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Tim Gayton

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 15 September 2021

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A gripping classic crime thriller set in rural Victoria. The character development and interwoven story lines as well as the sporadic story line hints and twists throughout this story, is excellent.
The author almost encourages an outcome through the story telling, then a pivot, and you are left guessing as to how the story will unfold.
I particularly enjoyed the detail which enhanced the backdrop of scenes. An excellent depiction of the tired and drought stricken town, with its array of colourful and relatable characters was immersive.

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BEST BOOK EVER!!! \'-'/

Reviewed in Australia on 7 April 2021

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I absolutely loved this book. The whole plot of the story was amazing and it was also very smart. Just one thing to work on would be the memories Jane Harper kept on flicking back too, when she did I got a little confused nnd thought that maybe Jane could have made it more obvious when these memories happened and where these memories were happening.

Overall, this is definitely a book to put on your reading list!
(P.S memories are in itallics in the book)

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A flood of great ideas

Reviewed in Australia on 2 January 2019

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A very well constructed mystery that builds on current events, the drought and farmer suicide.

Aaron Falk is a new concept as a financial crimes detective caught up in the apparent suicide of his childhood friend after killing his family.

Returning home for the funeral his friends parent ask him to investigate. On the property he finds Sergeant Raco has doubts that it happened the way it seems.

There are a multitude of story lines and for each there is a suspect. The main other story is the death of a girl 20 years before where Aaron is implicated by a lie for an alibi worked out with the dead man. There are elements of a Greek tragedy with the unknown always out of reach.

There ate some minor issues and Jane tries to insert red herrings but doesn't always succeed. The final showdown is a bit overblown than necessary but overall this is fine book.

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Helen Taylor

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2019

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This is the first book for years I have been unable to put down until finished! First book? Wow, whats next?
I live in a small town, thankfully not quite like this one, I know how drought feels, it was in this very book! Skillful, twisting & turning, & too real for this author to have not been born & bred in our "outback"!.......but she wasn't. Again I say, brilliant

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Kalimotxo

One star

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2019

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Read this for our book group. I genuinely cannot understand all the rave reviews. We thought it plodded on with fairly tedious dialogue and two of us skimmed the last few chapters. Really boring read. The culprit I thought was predictable, none of the characters likeable or given enough depth. Sorry but just did not enjoy this and I’m alarmed at some of the positive reviews.

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Kym Hamer

A cracking read and a fantastic debut for Harper!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2017

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What a cracking read this is. Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to the small outback town of his youth for the funeral of an old friend and finds himself drawn into the secrets and lies that bind the town's inhabitants into a simmering pot of hatred, frustration and despair. Harper draws on all of the hopes and fears that lie beneath Kiewarra's simmering surface to create a gripping plot that keeps you wondering about motive and opportunity until the final chapters. But even better, she also creates a vivid portrait of small town Australia and this brought back a torrent of memories - the remorseless skin-searing heat, the dry crackling smell that comes from months without rain and the stretches of brown - paddocks, brush, houses, dusty roads - sprawling lazily under the vast, fierce sky. The Dry is a fantastic debut for Harper and a wonderful addition to Australian fiction writing.

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Peter Hilton

The worst novel I have ever read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2019

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This is an absolute load of nonsense. Plodding action. Lengthy back sequences. Unsurprising end. I mean for God's sake how on Earth can this get such accolades ? Really, really dreadful. I stuck with it hoping for an improvement but was sadly disappointed. Do not waste your time and your Life on this rubbish.

Of course I might be completely insane and the rest of Humanity might find this well written [NO], plausible [NO] and entertaining [definitely NO].

Peter Hilton

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Gary M. Dobbs

A great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2018

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Set in a parched Australian landscape, Jane Harper's The Dry is a real page turner of a crime novel. Much was made of the fact that this was a debut novel, coming from a writer who worked on the book while taking a creative writing course. It's been a massive success, and has turned heads not only in the land down under, but worldwide - it was a Radio 2 Book Choice, named the CWA Golden Dagger Book of the Year, named the Sunday Times Book of the Year for 2017 and is currently optioned for a major film , with none other than Reese Witherspoon attached to the project. The latest news is that the movie will start filming early next year. And before all that it won the Victorian Premier Literary Award for An Unpublished Manuscript.

One of the many strengths of the novel is that it so effectively creates a sense of place, which gives it a lot in common with the Nordic noirs which are so popular with readers, though where the abiding image of Nordic thrillers are the desolate snowscapes, Harper's book operates in the polar opposite. It's Outback noir and the parched desolate landscape of the book goes a long way in creating a sense of dread. The land is dying before our eyes, people are living in a state of poverty and hopelessness so it is no wonder that violence soon flares up.

The novel opens with a swarm of blowflies swarming around the bodies of a mother and son, who were butchered in their own home in a seemingly straight forward murder/suicide. Luke Hadler, driven mad by years of drought seems to have shot both his wife and son before turning the gun on himself.

Melbourne based policeman, Aaron Falk spent his childhood in the town of Kiewarra but he and his father had to leave town after the death of a young girl - actually, they were driven out of town when suspicion regarding the young girl's death fell on Aaron. And now years later Aaron returns to the town for the funeral of Luke and his family and becomes involved in an unofficial investigation into the so called murder/suicide. Why for instance did Luke, assuming he saw a hopeless future for himself and his family not kill his infant daughter before turning the gun on himself? Why just his wife and young son?

Falk teams up with local policeman, Sergeant Raco (as likable a character as you can meet in crime fiction) and together the duo start investigating. At the start of the book there is doubt sown in the reader's mind over the involvement Falk may have played in the death of the young girl all those years ago, and this story in a secondary mystery that runs alongside the main storyline. I've called the book Outback Noir, as to some extent it is but this is basically a crime novel in the classic style with a myriad of twists and turns to throw the reader before the thrilling and logical conclusion plays out.

29 people found this helpful

H Johnson

Full of tedious detail

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2018

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Competently written but oh so longwinded , full of tedious detail. I’m not sure why I thought this genre of novel was for me. I struggled to find any character interesting or, indeed, realistic. As another reviewer said, if this was voted the best crime novel of the year, what on earth were the others like?! Little original in it. However, the writer evoked a strong sense of place and I liked some of the descriptive prose.

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