Jane Harper has a wonderful ability to evoke the essence of a place and here she really shows off that skill to magnificent effect. The Lost Man is a lovely slow burn of a mystery, leaving you with the dust of the Outback under your nails. Her follow-up was Force of Nature, in which we moved from the drought-ravaged tight-knit farming community of Kiewarra to an outward bounds retreat in the rain-drenched forests of the Giralang Range. I was (and still am) a huge fan of Jane Harper’s first book, The Dry, one of my books of the year when it was published back in 2017. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects… The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper Published by Little, Brown, February 2019
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