Now he is returning to attend the Hadlers’ funeral, in Kiewarra, where, reluctantly but inevitably, he gets sucked into mysteries old and new. A successful life, too he became a big-city cop. In a bid to escape such rumors, Aaron left town, and made a life elsewhere. Many locals believe that Aaron, in particular, knew more than he was prepared to tell. Ellie’s death was deemed to be accidental, but suspicion has always clung to it. In flashbacks to that time, we see Ellie swimming and messing around with her pals-a girl named Gretchen (Claude Scott-Mitchell), plus the teen-age Luke (Sam Corlett) and his best friend, Aaron Falk (Joe Klocek). In 1991, a high-school student, Ellie Deacon (BeBe Bettencourt), died in a river near Kiewarra, at the age of seventeen.

The second notable deed may not have been a crime at all. If she were old enough to give evidence, what would she say?

The only blessing is that his baby daughter was spared.

(It’s a fictional place, but the movie, adapted from the novel of the same name by Jane Harper, and directed by Robert Connolly, was filmed in the Australian state of Victoria.) Back at Luke’s house are the bodies of his wife and son, and it is presumed-for want of a better theory-that he killed them before taking his own life, though he left no note. How many crimes have been committed before “The Dry” begins? One barbarous act we know about for sure: a man named Luke Hadler (Martin Dingle Wall) has been found dead, with a shotgun beside him, outside the town of Kiewarra.

The dry by jane harper reviews