The officers go to the school to arrest Whitlam, but he escapes into the woods behind their property. He suspects that Whitlam murdered Karen and her family to keep his theft a secret, staging it to look like a murder-suicide. He quickly learns that Whitlam stole school money to pay off his debts and figures out that Karen must have found out while doing the bookkeeping. When police investigate their alibis for the day when the murders happened, it turns out that both men were not where they said they were during that time period.Īs distrust and accusations are getting worse in Kiewarra, Falk discovers that Whitlam has a gambling addiction. However, he is also questioned by Raco because of his relationship with Dr Leigh, who was having an affair with Jamie at the time. Falk then finds a note Karen wrote about Grant, which leads him to interrogate him again.
The information Jamie provides is not helpful, nor are they able to find anything incriminating on security camera footage from Scott Whitlam’s school where Karen helped out with accounts.įalk thinks that Mal and Grant may have been involved with the Hadlers’ deaths, but they deny any involvement. The two men interview Jamie Sullivan, who was the last person to see Luke alive. The new chief of police in Kiewarra is not convinced that Luke killed Karen and Billy, so he recruits Falk to help him with an unofficial investigation. She is suspected by many in the town as being responsible for her murder but others believe that it wasn’t her who committed the crime. Ellie Deacon was one of their childhood friends who was murdered 20 years ago when she was 16. The town believes that they died because of a two-year drought and not because Luke killed them.
His friend Luke’s father, Gerry Hadler, has invited him back for the funeral of Luke and Karen Hadler. 1-Page Summary of The Dry Overall SummaryĢ0 years ago, Falk left his hometown of Kiewarra to move to Melbourne.
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