And as Aaron pokes around a little-asking a few questions, listening to a few conversations-he starts to realize that a number of lies have been told since. He and Luke, that is.įact is, lies were told twenty years ago. Twenty years earlier, a girl he was romantically involved with was found dead in a nearby river-a riverbed that’s all dried up and turned to barren, cracked dirt these days-and every drunk in town still thinks he was involved. The fact is, he’s pretty much a hated individual here in Kiewarra. And after he does so, they implore him to, at the very least, “look into the books” before he leaves.Īaron agrees to do so, but reluctantly. Since he’s an Australian Federal Police officer, Luke’s parents all but begged him to attend the funeral. And that’s another reason Aaron felt so compelled to leave Melbourne and travel down here. They want to believe some completely different crime took place. Luke’s parents don’t believe that he’s guilty of that atrocity, of course. That’s because Luke is accused of killing his wife and child before taking his own life. Thing is, this isn’t some pleasant gathering where people sit and share nice thoughts about lost loved ones. And Aaron feels compelled to attend the funeral. Luke, a man who used to be his best friend, is dead.
As Aaron drives down the sun-bleached and drought-plagued streets of his old hometown of Kiewarra, Australia, so many things fill his head.
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