
When he’s at the funeral, a picture of Luke, him, Gretchen and Ellie appears in a slide show. Only baby Charlotte escaped the slaughter.įalk hasn’t been home for twenty years and he goes back reluctantly. Luke was apparently at the end of his rope and killed himself and his family. The town is dying, the lack of income from the farmers affect the local shops and this drought seems endless. Kiewarra is a rural town, Luke was a farmer and all farmers are struggling to survive because of a terrible drought. When the book opens, Aaron Falk is in Melbourne and he’s about to go back to his hometown Kiewarra to attend the funeral of his childhood friend Luke Hadler, his wife Karen and their son Billy. He’s usually after white collar criminals. The main character is Aaron Falk, a federal police officer working in the financial division. Good for me because The Dry was even better than Force of Nature.

The Dry by Jane Harper (2016) French title: Canicule.Īfter reading the second volume of Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series (see my billet), I decided to read the first one as well.
