The dry (2016)

Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for funerals and finds that the community’s interpretation of a present tragedy still depends on what it believes about him and his friend twenty years earlier. Harper lets drought and daily pressure work on people whose old loyalties have never become neutral. The older death matters to the investigation, rather than supplying a detachable prologue. Begin with this first Falk novel for a tense return to a place that has preserved a damaging account of the past.