'Gone Girl' of Australian crime fiction gets award nod

By Linda Morris
Updated April 2 2017 - 9:48am, first published March 22 2017 - 4:14pm

Jane Harper's initial hopes for The Dry, a page-turning murder-mystery set in drought-stricken rural Australia, were modest enough. Firstly, it was to finish the manuscript she had started, then it was to get published and onto book shelves.

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