The dry

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The dry

Author:

Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth), author.

ISBN:

9781432847623

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication:

Farmington Hills, Mich : Large Print Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

501 pages (large print) ; 22 cm

Series title(s):

Aaron Falk ;

Thorndike Press large print peer picks.

Number in series:

BK. 1.

Summary:

"Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasn't been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Luke, is dead, his entire family murdered, Falk still isn't planning on going back. But then he gets a note: "Luke lied. You lied. Be at the funeral." And just like that, Falk is swept back into the secrets of the place and people he left so long ago. Amid the worst drought in a century, long-buried mysteries will resurface. And Falk will discover anew what he's known all along--sometimes you have to go back home in order to finally leave your past behind, "--Page 4 of cover

Subject(s):

Homecoming -- Fiction.

Best friends -- Death -- Fiction.

Homicide investigation -- Fiction.

Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Large type books.

Australia -- Fiction.

Australia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Australia -- Fiction.

Australia -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.

Australia.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Holds:

Available:*

Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Independence Public Library	LP FICTION - HARPER	Searching... Unknown
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Harper, J.	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

A small town hides big secrets in The Dry , an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn't tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead.

Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there's more to Luke's death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets.

Author Notes

Jane Harper is an author who won the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her novel The Dry. The $15,000 award was presented at the opening night of the 2015 Emerging Writers Festival. Harper's winning manuscript was chosen from a shortlist of three from more than 130 entries. The Dry tells `the story of a city policeman who is dragged back to the country township he fled years earlier to investigate a multiple homicide'. The Victorian Premier's Literary Award, for an Unpublished Manuscript, is administered by the Wheeler Centre. The Dry won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Derbut Fiction and as Book of the Year. It was also the winner of the 2018 British Book Awards, Crime and Thriller book of the year, and won the 2018 Barry Award for Best First Novel. Her second book entitled Force of Nature was published in May 2018, which won the 2018 Davitt Award for Readers' choice. The Lost Man is her third book and was published in October 2018.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

New York Review of Books Review

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