The bush is the location for a weekend team building exercise for business BaileyTennants. There is a constant drizzle, the terrain is hostile and it is infamous for it being the location of a number of abductions and murders of women 20 years earlier. Whilst The Dry was set in the extreme heat of a heat wave and drought, Force of Nature is located deep in the Australian bush at the Giralong Ranges. I became so involved in the book that I ended up devouring Force of Nature in one sitting on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Nobody creates characters, a general sense of unease and plots quite like Jane Harper. We are thrown straight into the action with a wonderful opening chapter filled with atmosphere, dread and tension which really sets the scene for a gripping and compelling novel. There is always a worry that a second novel will not live up to expectations but I didn’t have to worry as Force of Nature is just as exceptional as its predecessor. I had fallen in love with her writing, her sense of place and her characterisation of Aaron Falk. When I found that she had written a second novel, Force of Nature I knew that I had to read it. Last year I read The Dry by Jane Harper and I absolutely adored it, it was clever, human and utterly compelling. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers.

And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.įederal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path.īut one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?

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