The Dry has been published in French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Jane Harper is an author who won the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for her novel The Dry. Harper's winning manuscript was chosen from a shortlist of three from more than 130 entries. The Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript is administered by the Wheeler Centre.
The Dry tells `the story of a city policeman who is dragged back to the country township he fled years earlier to investigate a multiple homicide'.