The neighbours are in shock, but when Luke Hadler is supposed to have committed the crime and then taken his own life, nobody is too surprised. The people thought that life could not get any tougher, until news spreads like a wild fire, that the bodies of Luke, Karen and young Billy Hadler have been found, all brutally murdered with a shotgun. With tempers fraying the locals are distracted and distraught, with late night pub brawls now a more common occurrence. With the livestock too undernourished to be of use to anyone and with land that is too arid to tend, the farming community is at it’s wits end. The small rural town of Kiewarra, in the state of Victoria, is in the midst of one of the worst droughts it has witnessed in years. To them there was little difference between a carcass and a corpse’ ‘It wasn’t as though the farm hadn’t seen death before, and the blowflies didn’t discriminate.
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