![]() Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. ![]() I just can’t understand how someone like him could do something like that.Īmid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. A bottleneck of black and grey was already forming at the entrance as Aaron Falk drove up, trailing a cloud of dust and cracked leaves. And no feed made for difficult decisions as the tiny town shimmered under day after day of burning blue sky.Įven those who didn’t darken the door of the church from one Christmas to the next could tell there would be more mourners than there were seats. They sought out unblinking eyes and sticky wounds as the farmers of Kierwarra levelled their rifles at skinny livestock. ![]() The drought had left the flies spoiled for choice that summer. To them there was little difference between a carcass and a corpse. It wasn’t as though the farm hadn’t seen death before, and the blow flies didn’t discriminate. This week’s first paragraph is from The Dry by Jane Harper, her debut novel, which has received many accolades and is shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award. The Gold Dagger is awarded to the best crime novel of the year. ![]() Every Tuesday Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros to share the first paragraph sometimes two, of a book that she’s reading or is planning to read soon. ![]()
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