6/4/2023 0 Comments The lost man harper![]() ![]() ![]() Harper expertly weaves past guilts with present grief. The distinctively Aussie array of stoic characters who are weathered, and in some cases warped, by their uncompromising environment more than compensates for a denouement that feels psychologically false. That Kieran’s father may have been wandering on the beach the night of the murder raises the stakes. ![]() While locals profess that Bronte’s killer must be an outsider, many start wondering-as do the police-whether there’s any connection to a tragedy involving Kieran that tore apart the community 12 years earlier. 5, 2019 A timely novel set in the furthest reaches of Australia by the author of The Dry (2017) and Force of Nature (2018). Then the murder of college student Bronte Laidler, who had been spending her summer break creating art inspired by the area’s rugged coast, upsets the town. What an extraordinary novel: part family drama, part indelible ode to the outback - a thriller as forceful and atmospheric as a brewing storm. ![]() and, against long odds, her most marvellous yet, pitting brother against brother, man against nature, reader against the clock. Sydney physiotherapist Kieran Elliott, the protagonist of this elegiac suspense novel from bestseller Harper ( The Lost Man), has steeled himself for an emotionally turbulent visit to his hometown of Evelyn Bay, Tasmania, where he has returned to help his mother pack up the family home before his dementia-afflicted father moves into a nursing facility. The Lost Man is Jane Harper's third consecutive marvel. ![]()
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