One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read...Read it!' David Baldacci THE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB CHOICE AUSTRALIA INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 AUSTRALIA INDIE DEBUT OF THE YEAR 2017 'Packed with sneaky moves and 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 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Abacus
ISBN: 9780349142111
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 432
Tiempo de lectura:
8h 56m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda bolsillo
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/01/2017
Año de edición: 2017
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Jane Harper
Jane Harper nació en Manchester (Inglaterra), pero a los ocho años se mudó con su familia a Boronia, en la región australiana de Victoria. Se graduó en Historia y Literatura Inglesa por la Universidad de Kent, en Canterbury, y trabajó durante trece años en Inglaterra y luego en Australia como periodista. Años de sequía (Salamandra, 2017), cuyos derechos de traducción se han vendido a más de treinta idiomas, recibió los premios ABIA, Indie y Ned Kelly en Australia, entre otros, y fue finalista del prestigioso CWA Gold Dagger Award de 2017 en Reino Unido. Reese Witherspoon y Bruna Papandrea han adquirido los derechos cinematográficos de la novela. Jane Harper, que vive en Melbourne, ha publicado también The Lost Man (2018).