The Dry

This book is what made me fall in love with suspense and mystery stories. The way it is written immediately sucks you in and prepares you for a read of terrific red herrings and interesting plot development. It feels like you are solving the mystery along with the characters!

AMAZING BOOK! I loved this so much and I can’t wait to read the next book. I definitely did not expect the outcome at the end, I gasped when the author revealed what happened.

Good story, s-l-o-o-o-o-w unfolding. Reads like a police procedural. One of four teenage friends dies and is found in the river of a remote village in Australia. The authorities rule it as a suicide. The town suspects homicide. The town folk think one of two teenage boys killed her, but the two boys alibi each other out. At least one if not two people know the real truth. But no one is talking. The dead girl’s father successfully runs one of the boys (Aaron Falk) and his father out of town. Twenty years later, when one of the suspected boys (Luke Hadler) is found dead after apparently shooting his wife, his 6-year-old son, and himself—but not the 13-month-old toddler, the other suspected guy (Falk) returns to town to offer condolences to the Hadler family that once felt like his own. The Hadler family wants Falk, a federal financial crimes investigator, to look into Luke’s finances and see if the deaths can be attributed to something else, certain that Luke did not commit such heinous crimes. Falk makes friends with the pub owner and the school principal—both officially outsiders, as well as the remaining friend from his teenage years, Gretchen, but hits a dead end on the financial search of Luke Hadler and family. Falk is outcast by the entire town of locals and they all try to force him to leave. Finally, a receipt from the week the Hadlers died found marking a page inside a library book in the Hadler household creates a possible break in the case. It contains the name of the dead teenage girl’s cousin, Grant, but had Aaron Falk’s telephone number on it. Any more information would create spoilers. The author does leave you hanging just a little on the teenage girl's death, but offers a reasonable possibility. The author did make me just a little dizzy popping back and forth in time so often toward the end. But other than that, it's a good read.

this book is one of the best books i have ever read-I read about 6 books a week and it was very hard to put this book down-Great read!!