Characters in The Dry

Aaron Falk

A federal financial-crimes investigator drawn back to his hometown to look into a friend's death.

Also in Exiles

Luke Hadler

Falk's late childhood friend, whose death sets the investigation in motion.

Ellie Deacon

A seventeen-year-old who drowned in Kiewarra two decades earlier, a death that was blamed on Falk and Luke.

Karen Hadler

Luke's wife, killed alongside him and their son, and a school receptionist who had recently uncovered a financial irregularity.

Billy Hadler

Luke and Karen's six-year-old son, killed alongside his parents in the incident Falk returns to investigate.

Charlotte Hadler

The Hadlers' infant daughter, the family's sole survivor and a focal point of the investigation.

Gretchen Schoner

One of Falk's closest childhood friends, still living in Kiewarra and raising a young son of her own.

Sergeant Greg Raco

The local police sergeant who partners with Falk to reinvestigate the Hadler deaths.

Grant Dow

Ellie Deacon's cousin, openly hostile to Falk since his return to Kiewarra.

Mal Deacon

Ellie Deacon's father, still resentful of Falk two decades after his daughter's death.