' One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read Read it!' David Baldacci WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2017AMAZONCOM'S 1 PICK FOR BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2017 The Gold Australian Book Industry Award for Book of the Year Australian Book Industry Award for Fiction Book of the Year WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHTHE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICESUNDAY TIMES CRIME THRILLER OF THE MONTH' Packed with sneaky moves & teasing possibilities that keep the reader guessing The Dry is a breathless page-turner' Janet Maslin New York Times WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY?I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century it hasn't rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered Everyone thinks Luke Hadler who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife & six-year-old son is guilty Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend & is unwillingly drawn into the investigation As questions mount & suspicion spreads through the town Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier Because Falk & Luke Hadler shared a secret one which Luke's death threatens to unearth & as Falk probes deeper into the killings secrets from his past & why he left home bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend's crime And if you loved The Dry don't miss Jane Harper's second novel Force of Nature now available