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Zusatztext If you read only one crime novel this year make it this one. Informationen zum Autor Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man. Her books are published in more than forty territories worldwide, and The Dry has been released as a major film starring Eric Bana. Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and now lives in Melbourne. Klappentext Australia is in the grip of its worst drought in a century! and it hasn't rained in the small country town of 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 and six-year-old son! is guilty. Policeman Aaron Falk returns to his home town for the funeral of his childhood best friend! and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town! Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret! one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings! secrets from his past bubble to the surface as he investigates the truth of his friend's crime. The Dry is a story of desperation! resolution and small-town prejudice! played out against the blistering extremes of life in a ravaged land. IN A TOWN WITHOUT RAIN, SOME SECRETS ARE NEVER WASHED AWAY Zusammenfassung 'One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David Baldacci 'P acked with sneaky moves and teasing possibilities that keep the reader guessing... The Dry is a breathless page-turner' Janet Maslin, New York Times THE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE AUSTRALIA INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AUSTRALIA INDIE DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2017 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 and six-year-old son, is guilty. Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, secrets from his past and why he left home bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend's crime. ...
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My crime novel of the year is Jane Harper's The Dry...The savage beauty of the landscape makes an unforgettable setting' Joan Smith, Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year 2017
