Australia is in the grip of its worst drought in a century and it hasn't rained in the small country town of Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six-year-old son, is guilty.
Policeman Aaron Falk returns to his home town for the funeral of his childhood best friend, and is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. As questions mount and suspicion spreads through the town, Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret, one which Luke's death threatens to unearth. And, as Falk probes deeper into the killings, secrets from his past bubble to the surface as he questions the truth of his friend's crime.

Cracking tale. Couldn't put it down.

Taking to bc mini meet at Mrs Bridges café.

Picked up over lunch.

Set in Australia, in a small town where it hasn't rained for two years. It appears that Luke Hadler killed his wife and son and then turned the gun on himself.
Aaron Falk was Luke's best friend when they were children and when he returns to his hometown for the funeral he gets drawn in to the investigation.
This was a really good read, hard to put down and I'd happily try another from this author.

So pleased to pick this up from Mrs Bridge's.

Totally agree with Tanamo and Raeliz64; a cracker...and there is a next one too!

At a mini meet.

Left on the charity book table in Outpatients 2.