Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is
for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book
you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the
opener inspires. Please remember to include the title
of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on
the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.
This week my book beginning is The Dry by Jane Harper. I received a copy from Netgalley and it is due to be published by Little Brown on 17th January 2017.
It wasn't as though the farm hadn't seen death before, and the blowflies didn't discriminate. To them there was no difference between a carcass and a corpse.
Description
I just can't understand how someone like him could do something like that.
Amid
the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn't rained in
small country town 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 the town of his youth 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 and why he left home bubble to the surface as he
questions the truth of his friend's crime.
