A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Lukes death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.
خواندن متن اصلی انگلیسی
A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Lukes death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.
شناسنامهٔ کتاب
- تعداد صفحات
- ۳۵۲
- زبان
- English
- ناشر
- Macmillan Australia
- شابک
- 10000000000000
مکان روایت
- Australia
Australia
جوایز
- Barry Award for Best First Novel (2018)
- Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction (2017)
- Victorian Premiers Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript (2015)
- Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year & Debut Fiction (2017)
- Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Book of the Year
- for General Fiction and Nominee for The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year (2017)
۲ جایزهٔ دیگر
- CWA Gold Dagger Award (2017)
- Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller & for Debut Goodreads Author (2017
