Publishing in hardback on 7th February 2019
* Little, Brown *
£12.99
The new standalone thriller from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Dry and Force of Nature.
Three brothers. One Death. No Answers.
He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was alive, he didn’t look peaceful in death.
Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of Outback Queensland.
They are at the Stockman’s Grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron.
The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish.
Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…
Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry and Force of Nature. Her books are published in more than 36 territories worldwide, with film rights sold to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and now lives in Melbourne.
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Claire's Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Firstly, I need to say that this book took me pleasantly by surprise. It was a completely different to read to what I was imagining, and I was hooked the whole way through.
The Lost Man is a stand-alone, about the death of Cameron Bright, who dies in the middle of the Australian desert, however, things don't add up as he knew how to deal with the climate and his car was found 9km away stocked with supplies and without no faults.
Cameron's brothers Nathan and Bub, come together to try and piece together exactly what happened to their brother.
This book was a great read, and Harper did such a good job with the descriptions, and you actually feel as if you are experiencing the settings first hand. This is definitely a novel that I feel I will need to read again, not because I need to as such, but I think it will be the type of read that you pick more things up from the story each time you read it.
I am most definitely looking forward to seeing what this author has up her sleeve in the future.
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