Lost Man

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Jane Harper: Lost Man (2019, Flatiron Books)

352 pages

English language

Published Sept. 7, 2019 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:
978-1-250-22910-6
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Jane Harper offers readers a vivid tour of Australia's lonely places. Her debut, THE DRY, was set in a parched farming community anxiously waiting for wildfire to break out. Her second novel, FORCE OF NATURE, took us into a cold and tangled forest where it was all too easy for workmates on a teambuilding outing to become hopelessly lost. Her third novel, though it doesn't feature her previous protagonist, Aaron Falk, continues the pattern of being rooted in a vivid landscape. This time, it's the flat, dusty outback of Queensland where neighbors can live a four-hour drive apart and the unforgiving sun is deadly. The disturbing opening scene sets the stage: A body lies beside a gravestone out in the middle of nowhere. Tracks in the gritty red dust circle around the hundred-year-old monument, a record of the dead man's attempt to shelter in its meager shade from the brutal …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, thrillers
  • Australia, fiction
  • Brothers, fiction
  • Fiction, psychological