An award winning crime story? Can't see that myself, there is nothing special about this that makes it stand out more than any other crime mystery. It isn't terrible though, fantastic setting and when reading this the Aussie accent was coming through really well in my head. The heat was the best part, the book is based in the middle of a very long drought and the terrible heat and lethargy comes across big time. The characters were ok, Falk and Raco make a brilliant team, nice to see for once that the local cop wasn't portrayed as an idiot.

The main reason that this book doesn't stand above other run-of-the-mill crime novels is the end result was really limp, the book flows nicely and deserved an outrageous ending, the bad guy should have been nobody you could have expected....instead I was left going "Is that it? All this for something so silly?" Probably too much like real life for me.

This was an ok story, I might give Falk's second case a go just to see if things become more inventive. Looking on google it looks like there is gonna be a movie released Jan 2020, could be worth a view.

Blog review: felcherman.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/the-dry-by-jane-harper/