Force of Nature

Jane Harper

Force of Nature
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country
Australia
Published
29 May 2018
Pages
384
ISBN
9781760554767

Force of Nature

Jane Harper

Five women go on a hike. Only four return.

When a group of colleagues are forced to participate in a team-building exercise in the Giralang Ranges, they reluctantly start walking down the muddy track.

But Alice Russell doesn’t appear at the other end. Her last phone call was to Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk.

Alice is the whistleblower in his latest corporate fraud case and as he pursues the investigation, Falk uncovers a tangled web of suspicion and betrayal.

How well do we know the people we work with?

Review

Jane Harper’s The Dry was the book of 2016. An Australian debut that grabbed everyone’s attention, it won awards, hit the top of bestseller lists, and captured a Hollywood movie deal in the process. Following up such enormous success isn’t easy. Reading Harper’s second book, Force of Nature, brings with it a sense of trepidation: can she recapture the magic and do it again? As it turns out, yes she can.

Force of Nature sees the return of Federal Agent Aaron Falk. This time, he’s drawn into a case that’s less personal than what he was facing in The Dry, but every bit as interesting and layered. Five women walk into the bush on a three-day hike as part of a corporate team-building exercise, and only four return. The woman who has mysteriously disappeared is an informant that Falk has been working with, and he’s the last person she tried to call before she disappeared.

The structure of Force of Nature moves back and forth between Falk’s present-day investigation, and the story of the hike told from the point of view of the women taking part. Allowing the reader to see things through the eyes of the women gives necessary insight to a range of complicated characters, and works to build the tension as things go increasingly wrong for the group in the wilderness.

A gripping mystery full of juicy secrets, Force of Nature is the kind of book you’ll want to read in one sitting. Fans of The Dry won’t be disappointed.


Nina Kenwood is the marketing manager for Readings.

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