A Report on Holiday Reading: “The Dry” by Jane Harper

Along with film and television viewing, a rainy Christmas – New Year break also presented the opportunity to settle in with a good book.

The standout read was definitely Jane Harper’s The Dry (genre: police procedural/murder mystery.) The protagonist Aaron Falk, an officer with the Australian federal police, returns to his hometown in the rural hinterland, to attend the funeral of his boyhood best friend, who appears to have murdered his family then committed suicide.

Not unexpectedly, plot-wise...