The Survivors

A Novel

hardcover, 384 pages

Published Feb. 2, 2021 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-23242-7
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4 stars (3 reviews)

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Review of 'The Survivors' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Jane Harper is an author new to me, but The Survivors was a decent read to get me through a few rough days. The book revolves around Kieran, a new father coming back to his hometown with his girlfriend and their infant daughter. There is a great trauma and tragedy that haunts this town from Kieran’s past. Though the writing style could have used some finer editing and sharpening, the characters and narrative piqued my interest through the end of the novel. The mystery and suspense is gradually built up over the course of the book and while it isn’t a particularly twisty novel, it is one that kept me reading to find out the end.

The narrative is fairly simple, and not much happens other than the main mystery, which is inevitably tied to events that happened in the town’s and protagonist’s past. We get snippets from the past …

fraying memories and storms

5 stars

Deaths from a long ago storm come back under consideration when a survivor returns to their small Tasmanian town and someone is murdered. It’s more of a portrait of a town and the weights of history and guilty feelings than a murder mystery, really, and it’s absorbing for that.

Review of 'The Survivors' on 'LibraryThing'

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Jane Harper, who has taken her readers on a crime fiction tour of Australia, takes us to a small coastal town in Tasmania, a place where a ship once sank, taking over fifty people with it. The wreck remains a destination for divers, and a sculpture of three figures that stand above the waves, known as “The Survivors,” is both a memorial and a constant reminder that the sea, which gives the tourist town its livelihood, is both beautiful and cruel. returnreturnKerian Elliot has returned to Evelyn Bay with his girlfriend and infant daughter to help his mother pack up the house he grew up in. His father’s dementia has gotten so severe she can no longer care for him. Kerian rarely visits and is shocked by how advanced his father’s condition has become. Visits have always been fraught, given the shadow hanging over the family. Kerian’s popular older brother …