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Dry The Rain is the hottest true crime series on MovieTrap, but the young woman whose life it’s based on never wanted it made. After years of brutal captivity, Mallory was able to kill her kidnapper and escape the basement where she’d been caged. Now the whole world is watching a Hollywood recreation of her ordeal play out on television, week by week. In order to exert some level of control over her life, she decides to tell her story - from her perspective - and she knows that most of you will not be able to understand.
An indictment of exploitative media and the viewing public alike, Dry The Rain is a psychological labyrinth from start to finish. Told through the idiosyncratic voice of a young woman who chooses to write rather than speak, author Richard Leise charts a course across terrain that is at once horrific yet sober. Constructed with an incredible precision of language, Dry The Rain draws the reader into the fractured mind of a character with an unbreakable will.
“Dry the Rain is a sharp rebuke to the way we treat survivors of sensational crimes like media property. It exposes the circus, the voyeurism, the myth-making. It reminds us that surviving doesn’t end when the cameras stop rolling. And in a literary landscape that often seeks resolution, it dares to say: some stories don’t end. They echo.
This one echoed in me. And I think it will for a long time.”
Independent Book Review
“This isn’t a thriller or a trauma memoir with easy lessons. It’s a reflective, original story for those who want to sit with hard truths and aren’t looking for tidy endings. If you’ve ever felt that pain is something too often turned into content, this book will speak to that unease.”
Literary Titan
“Like that of Don DeLillo or Joy Williams, the work of award-winning author Richard Leise hums with mystery and cosmic power. With a sincerity rarely found in contemporary literature, Leise explores the mysteries of the human experience in an increasingly uncanny world. He does this in exquisitely crafted, winding sentences that can encompass whole lives or spiral into the deepest moments of personal revelation. This is writing that lets the numinous shine through the seams of the everyday, writing that reveals to us secrets we never knew we had.”
Kent Wascom, Author of The Great State of West Florida
“[D]aring and inventive literary fiction, with mainstream appeal. Introspective, mysterious, beguiling, dark, humorous, composed, yet provocative.”
John McManus, Whiting Award Recipient and Author of Fox Tooth Heart