"Dry" by Jane Harper is a great thriller set in a drought-stricken small town in Australia. Agent Aaron Falk investigates a supposed murder-suicide case and uncovers many secrets. The book has many twists and turns that kept me guessing until the end. If you enjoy reading thrillers, I highly recommend checking it out! However, I suggest reading the physical book instead of the audiobook. Thank you, @Soubhiville for organizing #AuthorAMonth
pickYay! I finally had the time to finish this one. It was a good mystery. I do admit that I was often confused distinguishing the present with the flashback scenes. However, it had me guessing who the murderer was.
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Halfway through and really enjoying the world building in this who-dunnit thriller set in rural Australia during a severe drought - adding an environmental element to the “why” in addition to cinematic setting. Apparently there‘s a film version starring Eric Bana 😍 - may need to find when I‘m done.
I don‘t think I‘ll get to another Harper book this month but I‘d def continue this series. 🇦🇺 #AuthorAMonth
pickFinished my #aam today. What an incredibly compelling mystery. The descriptions of Australia in the midst of an intense drought was.... Damn, so horrifying. The mystery was depressing AF and the characters were complicated. I highly enjoyed this and might actually continue the series 🤣🤣
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pickAfter being driven away from Kiewerra, Australia 20 years earlier under suspicious circumstances, Det. Aaron Falk arrives back in his hometown during the worst drought in the century to attend the funeral of his boyhood friend Luke, his wife, and his son. Many in this scorching town believe Luke murdered his wife and son and then himself; it's up to Falk and local Sgt. Raco to find out what truly happened while Falk faces his past.
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pickAaron Falk‘s childhood best friend Luke apparently killed his family and himself. Falk, the smalltown outcast for years, is now a Melbourne white collar crime investigator and wrangled into helping the town cop to investigate whether Luke really was the culprit. The ending isn‘t at all what you‘d expect—but entirely logical once you know everyone in town a bit better. This one was hard to put down. #authoramonth #Australia #readingOceania
pickI‘m grateful to #AAM and #bookspin for pushing me to finally read Jane Harper. She‘s been on my radar for years, but something in her book blurbs always left me wondering if she would actually be my style. It turns out I really enjoyed her dry humor, and thought Falk and the cast of surrounding characters were compelling. I did work out the major plot points ahead of the book, which never happens for me! But I‘m interested to read book 2.
pickBook one in the series. Very enjoyable. Well written characters and an interesting mystery.
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pickMarch #AuthorAMonth #ReadAway2024 #SeriesLove2024 This is the second Jane Harper book I‘ve read this week. It is the first book in the Aaron Falk series. The relationships are well written and the solutions to both mysteries come as a revelation. Two Jane Harper mysteries down, with three, hopefully more, to go.
pickNot at all the ending I was predicting! This was a great thriller. The audiobook made it hard to know which moments were recounting of the past versus current day, but you usually could figure it out after a few sentences.
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I tried reading the tagged book while also reading Harper‘s The Lost Man but it was too confusing. Both have main characters who are snubbed in town for something they allegedly did years ago, & there now was murder, deep in the heart of #Australia. To top it off, they are slightly linked. I‘ve decided to finish this one first. I just learned the “who done it,” and dang was I ever surprised! Did anyone else figure it out before the big reveal? ⬇️
pickAnother new to me author thanks to #authoramonth and one I will definitely read more from. I flew through this book. It was the perfect plane read for the journey home. I was fully transported away from my cramped seat to drought ridden Australia as I worried more about Aaron Falk than I did about the mystery he was roped into trying to solve.
I‘ve discovered the reason not to read two books by the same author at the same time. One is slow and drags, but still interesting. The other, however, is my pick when deciding which one to read. So it‘s hard to be motivated to read the other one. I won‘t tell which is which, but I‘d be interested to learn if anyone else has a favorite between these two.
I‘ve picked my next ebook, and I hope it‘s different enough from Harper‘s The Lost Man, which I‘m also reading right now, so I don‘t confuse the two.
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pickThis is just a straightforward mystery. It's good but 🤷. People kept recommending this to me when it came out and I now have no idea why. But good mystery.
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pickThank you so much for sending me this book, @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ! What a great story! It's twisty and thrilling and mysterious but also has complex, well-drawn characters. I just downloaded the second book in the series from Libby!
Photo is of California rather than Australia, but I think it represents the title well.
I haven't had any time to read today, but I did have time to open a package from @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks (many thanks!) and I ate a lot, went on two walks, and played games with my family.
so-soThe Dry is remarkably well written. The prose is taut and evocative, a step above Liane Moriarty in my view (though it would certainly appeal to readers who like her books). I will concede, though, that most of the plot twists were very predictable. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-dry-jane-harper/
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pickHad this on my kindle for ages and finally read it. Or should I say devoured it. What a great storyteller Jane Harper is. I lived in Kiewarra felt the heat and could hear the flies buzzing. Im so happy there are two more in this series. Highly recommend.
pickI don't read a lot of this genre, but when I go camping it is nice to have books that I can get swept up in and just fly through. Jane Harper is one of my favourite authors for this and I wasn't disappointed. Some pretty heavy subject matter though. See comments for content warnings.
pickA great start to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival yesterday. They are some of my favourite days of the year. I think it‘s great that Jane has got much better at public speaking and is now interviewing people herself. She was talking to Ben Stevenson, the writer of Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone. This book goes against all the writing rules as he thought he was going to die of covid which was in full swing as he was writing it.
pickThis reread was as good as I remembered! I loved the slowburn mystery set in Australia. A man's past comes back to haunt him when he returns to his hometown after an old friend's death. Harper‘s a master @ description & making the reader feel completely submerged in the story as she pulls back the curtain. You discover you had the answer all along, but never realized it. She's become an auto-buy author for me & fans of Tana French should love her.
I couldn‘t find a suitable Kindle Scribe case, so I went with stickers and a clear case. 🤷🏻♀️
Really enjoying this book so far. The Dry by Jane Harper. #kindlescribe #sundaynightreads 📚💜💕
pickReally enjoyed this mystery. A family, including a 6-year-old boy, are found dead. Was it a murder-suicide or did someone have it out for them? Federal agent Falk returns to town to look into his former best friend‘s death, but rumors abound about Falk‘s involvement in another death 20 years ago. I felt the current storyline was handled better than the past one. I liked how the drought was used to bring out the darkness in this farming town.
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pickReally, really enjoyed this one! I don‘t read a whole lot of thrillers, but saw this one suggested in a #52bookclub23 group for #setinaustralia and it was a page-turner! Well, whatever an audiobook page-turner is. The characters are so interesting & the pacing is great. Quick without being confusing, even when the flashbacks are mixed it. And the author does a great job of making pretty much everyone seem like a suspect. I loved it!
🥶 just thinking about this one makes me cold!! Loved it though! No Exit!
The Dry…
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pick17-8 Nov 22 (audiobook)
Not sure what you call an audio pageturner?
The above image made me picture Eric Bana as Falk, although my sister pointed out that he was probably miscast as Falk was supposed to be visibly at odds with his drought-stricken hometown in the Australian outback, having been a red-head who had never played football or cricket. Nevertheless, looking forward to the film.
A good example of outback noir. Apparently it‘s a thing.
pickLove it when you trust an author enough to just take the ride without much thought. Jane Harper and Tana French are my number one mystery writers. I will read anything and everything they write. Just one more Jane Harper to go until I‘ve actually done that too.
so-soI am in a heat wave in the west coast reading about Australia also going through a heat wave. I can relate to that for sure. The book was fine and full of mystery. I liked it but probably won‘t remember it after a book or two. Three days is how fast I read it.
The Dry is my favorite “D” book. I was gifted it years before I got around to reading it and finished it in 2 days 😂 Thanks for the tag @robinb #AlphabetGame #letterD
pickSuch a good book, I read it in one sitting because I didn't want to put it down
pickThis book is so good!!! I couldn‘t put it down
pickFinished this one while eating breakfast, had to know what happened. I think the best part of this book was the setting. You can just feel the heat, the dust and drynesses as you read this novel. Well written; I preferred the last half of the book.
“The rumors were fed well...and grew fat and solid. They sprouted legs and heads, and they never died.”
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