Force of Nature: A Novel
"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." --Stephen King
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018)
BookBrowse Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel
BookRiot's 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018
Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018
Dead Good Reads shortlist for Best Small Town Mystery 2018
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?
--A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window Select praise for The Dry:
"One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. Every word is near perfect. Read it!"
--David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A breathless page-turner ... Ms. Harper has made her own major mark."
--The New York Times
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Jane Harper creates a level-headed character and engages in creating a mystery with a slow-burn, where the complications arising from being stuck in difficult situations with different/difficult/disagreeable people come to the fore.
5 women on a weekend retreat in the forest of the Giralang ranges in Australia find themselves going off course and facing challenges they never imagined they’d have to. Reflecting on who they are and who they want to be, things get much, much more serious and dangerous when one of the 5 women goes missing, and the others emerge from the forest hours later than the appointed hour, battered and bruised… and hiding secrets.
It is now up to the very agreeable and likeable character of Aaron Falk to piece the puzzle together and maybe learn a thing or two about forgiveness himself.
Read this for:
1. A lead character to root for
2. A character to hate
3. Slow burn mystery that feeds you bits and pieces about the characters as they lose themselves in the wild
4. Learning whether the carpet python is poisonous or not
I’m ready for my next Aaron Falk story and eager to see the turn his life takes in the next one.
5 women on a weekend retreat in the forest of the Giralang ranges in Australia find themselves going off course and facing challenges they never imagined they’d have to. Reflecting on who they are and who they want to be, things get much, much more serious and dangerous when one of the 5 women goes missing, and the others emerge from the forest hours later than the appointed hour, battered and bruised… and hiding secrets.
It is now up to the very agreeable and likeable character of Aaron Falk to piece the puzzle together and maybe learn a thing or two about forgiveness himself.
Read this for:
1. A lead character to root for
2. A character to hate
3. Slow burn mystery that feeds you bits and pieces about the characters as they lose themselves in the wild
4. Learning whether the carpet python is poisonous or not
I’m ready for my next Aaron Falk story and eager to see the turn his life takes in the next one.
This was my second Jane Harper book and it was a good one. The plot was both interesting and unique, which today, is somewhat rare. I will definitely continue to follow and read Jane Harper's books!
I still am not entirely sure why a group of coworkers would go to a place such as this but it helps my attention enough while sick with Covid. I listened to the audio version.
I thought the story really dragged slowly on for too long. I think this is the last one from this author
This was an adventure/thriller involving 5 women on a work team building camping trip in the outback. Five go in, four come out. And there is a never fully described bit of corporate espionage going on as well. The book was well written and well told, alternating between the womens' trip and the search party for the missing woman, so we get the story revealed in a dual timeline, assuring that we seek to figure out what happened to Alice. I thoroughly enjoyed this and the investigators are becoming well developed characters. The narration was fabulous, providing an authentic Aussie accent to help set the stage and just the right level of tension throughout.
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