Why I chose crime/mystery novels over other books every time. But who is it? Then you get to the part, the climax, in this book, for me particularly the first page of Chapter 40, my eyes were literally wide open, unblinking and I realised I was holding my breath. Then, there is the temptation to skip past the pages and go to the end to find out, because you just have to know, but then stopping yourself because that’s cheating. They get your mind whirring, wondering, why did he say that? If he didn’t do it, then who did? Where was he? What really did happen to Ellie? Is it Falk? No, of course not, he wasn’t even there. I read ‘The Dry’ in under two days and now I can tell myself, and you, why I chose those novels. When I think back to those days I would always wonder why I was drawn to these books and why I didn’t spend my time reading the classics. I hadn’t read a crime thriller since I was in high school, which feels like a million years ago now. All the major Australian publishers were trying to get their hands on it, Pan Macmillan were the lucky ones and have labeled ‘The Dry’ as ‘The Book of the Year 2016’. There seemed to be a lot of hype online about this book since it won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Pan Macmillan sent me this book earlier this year, it is Jane Harper’s debut novel which will be published in June 2016.
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