Bookn' with Friends: "The Dry" by Jane Harper

WPL's Bookn' with Friends will gather to discuss The Dry by Jane Harper on Monday, October 28 at 6:30pm.

An absorbing and atmospheric mystery about a small town with big secrets, The Dry was selected to meet the 2024 Reading Challenge “detective novel or true crime.” Harper’s debut mystery, the novel introduces protagonist Aaron Falk and was made into a movie starring Eric Bana in 2020.  The Dry has a 4-star rating on goodreads and is 336 pages long. Copies are available to check out at the library’s front desk.

More on The Dry from the publisher:

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.

But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke’s death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.