work—covering everything from true crime to Arctic exploration—has featured in publications including The Sunday Times, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian. She lives with her husband and their young daughter in London, where she spends far too much time drinking iced coffee and watching serial killer shows.
Arnott's new novel is The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six "of the finest, most evocative crime novels that take place during heatwaves." One title on the list:
Jane Harper, The DryRead about another entry on the list.
Harper is the undeniable queen of Outback noir, using boab-flecked landscapes and searing Australian heat to add tension to her stifling small-town narratives.With The Dry, her smash hit debut, we follow Federal Police agent Aaron Falk as he returns to his rural hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke Hadler, who died in an apparent murder suicide alongside his wife and young son.
But when Luke’s parents press Falk to investigate further, dark secrets bubble to the surface and Falk’s own murky past is called into question. The action takes place in the fictional farming community of Kiewarra during the arid, unbearably hot Dry season. With a backdrop of scrubby crop fields, desiccated riverbeds and vast Outback emptiness, the heat swells from every page, creating a claustrophobic yet utterly compulsive reading experience.
The Dry is Peter Nichols's six novels whose crimes and mysteries grow out of place & manners, Kate Alice Marshall's five mysteries and thrillers about returning to your hometown, Olivia Kiernan's seven modern classics of small town mystery, Sarah J. Harris's top eight mysteries with images that might stay with you forever and Fiona Barton's eight favorite cold-case mysteries.
--Marshal Zeringue
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