Force of Nature

By Jane Harper,

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'THE NEW QUEEN OF CRIME' Sunday Times

The gripping new novel from the author of the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Waterstones Thriller of the Month and Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year, The Dry.

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2 authors picked Force of Nature as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jane Harper is a first-rate writer. She's very adept at turning the tension like a tourniquet without compromising charaterisation or plot. An equal to Stephen King on this aspect of the craft.

A corporate team building weekend in the forests outside Melbourne ends in tragedy, one of the team has gone missing and another is rushed to hospital with a snake bite. It's further complicated by the missing person helping Aaaron Falk investigate white-collar corruption at the company they work for.

As the story unfolds, Harper cleverly weaves office politics, gender politics, and parenthood past and present in a tight…

Five women go away on a corporate retreat in remote bushland and one of them goes up missing. All of Jane Harper’s books are brilliantly written but in this one, I enjoyed the duplicities and simmering tensions between the characters as well as trying to work out who the real villain was in this slow-burn mystery.

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