listened on Audible
2016 MacMillan Australia
352 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 11/9/2018
Goodreads rating: 4.04 - 88,986 ratings
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary Australian boonies
First line/s: "It wasn't as though the farm hadn't seen death before, and the blowflies didn't discriminate."
My comments: It was fun being transported to Australia - and I must admit it took a bit of time to get used to the reader's Aussie accent. Excellent story, mostly dark and sad. This is Aaron Falk's story - the story of his childhood, his friendships, his past. That he also becomes the chief investigator, the mystery-solver is a nice plus. I look forward to reading the next in the series because we've gotten to know Aaron Falk so well, where does his life go from here?
Goodreads synopsis: A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.
In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.
Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.
But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds in bleed into new ones.
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