Jane Harper is the author of The Dry, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2017. Rights have been sold in 27 territories worldwide, and film rights optioned to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne.
Jane Harper, the new Queen of Crime...Even more impressive than The
Dry...Harper makes it look easy but she has to pace two narratives
without giving too much away, creating an almost unbearable level
of suspense...Nature is a hostile, unpredictable force in both of
Harper's novels, but her brilliance lies in making it into a test
of horribly fallible human nature
*The Sunday Times*
'The most exciting emerging novelist of the last 12 months...As
gripping, atmospheric and ingeniously plotted as The Dry, it places
Harper in the elevated company of the authors she most admires: Val
McDermid, Gillian Flynn and Lee Child
*Mail on Sunday*
Powerful, intriguing and recommended...Harper is wonderful at
evoking fear and unease, and she draws a mesmeric picture of the
terrifying Australian terrain
*The Times*
Jane Harper is more from the Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt
school of mystery: elegant, intelligent and not for the
faint-hearted...As chapters swap between the tense outward-bound
weekend (where self-hatred, fear and resentment jostle for
position) and its subsequent investigation, Harper creates a
claustrophobic page-turner that conjures up that other great
Australian mystery, Joan Lindsay's Picnic At Hanging Rock
*Emerald St*
Once again Harper leaves you gagging to know who did what. Once
again there are plenty of suspects
*Evening Standard*
Jane Harper has high literary credentials - her debut novel, The
Dry, one of the big hits of last year, matched critical acclaim
with bestselling sales figures. This second novel is just as
good...Landscape is a sinister presence in Harper's novels and here
it takes on a powerfully disruptive, psychological force...Harper
creates an atmosphere of stifling claustrophobia as the novel
inexorably telescopes in...This is that rare thing, a whodunnit
where the writing is as satisfying as the thrills
*Metro*
The delight of this spell-bindingly suspenseful thriller lies in
the slow revelation of what really happened to the missing
woman...This follow-up novel shows Harper is a crime-writing force
to be reckoned with
*Sunday Mirror*
Force of Nature is Jane Harper's eagerly awaited follow-up to her
debut novel The Dry, an international bestseller that has won a
string of awards....Harper's writing style has no frills but it is
clear and beautifully paced. It makes the bushland come alive and
the sense of the wilderness closing in is tangible...This thriller
will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck and leave you
gripped to the final page
*Daily Express*
Jane Harper's The Dry was a publisher's dream: a critically
acclaimed debut novel that became an immediate best seller. Force
of Nature is her follow-up, and it arrives without a trace of
sophomore slump; if anything it is a better novel than its
predecessor...While the plot unfolds at an expertly controlled pace
and is resolved in a satisfyingly ambiguous fashion, it is the
relationships between the women that drive the novel...thoughtful,
moving, troubling
*Irish Times*
A three-day team-building hike in the Australian bush ends in
disaster when the unpleasant Alice Russell disappears. Throw in a
serial killer, industrial espionage, and several unreliable
narrators and you have a tense thriller that made me feel good
about my decision never to go camping
*Red magazine*
A gripping follow-up to her debut, The Dry
*Good Housekeeping, Three Thrillers We Love*
We cancelled all our plans when we heard the brilliant Jane Harper
was bringing out a follow-up to her fab crime novel The Dry. And
we're glad we did, because Force Of Nature is every bit as gripping
as its predecessor. . . Don't miss it
*NEW magazine*
That all-important 'difficult' second novel? Jane Harper has
smashed it in spades...Her astonishing first book, The Dry, a
sizzlingly tense murder drama set during the Aussie drought, picked
up maximum stars in this column last year - but we'll have to empty
the star drawer for this one...Throw in a serial killer in the area
and you've got a netful of red herrings to sift through before you
get to the clever and nerve-jangly ending
*Weekend Sport*
I loved The Dry. Force of Nature is even better. Brilliantly paced,
it wrong-foots the reader like a rocky trail through the bush. I
adored it
*Susie Steiner, bestselling author of Missing, Presumed and Persons
Unknown*
I loved The Dry by Jane Harper, I thought it was magnificent, like
everybody else did...Fabulous! And her new book Force of
Nature...such brilliance. From the first paragraph I was hooked -
you just know you're in the hands of a master. She's such an
excellent writer and the sense of place is so powerful
*Marian Keyes*
Lord of the Flies in the Australian outback, with grown women in
place of school boys. I loved every chilling moment of it. A
blistering follow-up to The Dry from one of the best new voices in
crime fiction
*Sarah Hilary, author of the bestselling DI Marnie Rome series*
A major voice in contemporary fiction. Like Tana French's Dublin
Murder Squad series and Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels, Jane
Harper's deftly plotted mysteries double as sensitive inquiries
into human nature, behavior, and psychology. And like The Dry,
Force of Nature bristles with wit; it crackles with suspense; it
radiates atmosphere. An astonishing book from an astonishing
writer
*A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window*
Harper's debut, The Dry, was The Sunday Times crime novel of 2017
and won the CWA Gold Dagger award. That makes this second outing
from the Australian a very hot ticket indeed
*Sunday Times, Books of 2018*
The Dry was one of the standout crime debuts of 2017; Australian
author Harper follows it with a story of women hiking in the bush -
five go out, but only four come back
*Guardian, Books of 2018*
Riveting, tension-driven thriller...Perfect for fans of Tana French
and readers who enjoy literary page-turners
*Booklist, starred review*
Harper's crackerjack plotting propels the story...Harper layers her
story with hidden depths, expertly mining the distrust between
Alice and her four colleagues, and the secrets that simmer under
the surface...A spooky, compelling read
*Kirkus*
A gripping tale of an elemental battle for survival...Harper once
again shows herself to be a storytelling force to be reckoned
with
*Publishers Weekly*
Once again, Harper manages to touch on something mythic in the
Australian experience of the land...From Frederic McCubbin's
mournful painting...Lost, to Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging
Rock...getting lost in the bush was for a while every
non-Indigenous Australian's worst nightmare. Force of Nature plays
on this fear and then some. Ratcheting up the sense of threat is
the shade of a notorious serial killer lurking in the
undergrowth
*Sydney Morning Herald*
Force of Nature proves Jane Harper, author of The Dry, is no
one-hit wonder. Its premise is instantly gripping
*Herald Sun (Melbourne)*
As thick with menace as the bush that seems to swallow the
difficult Alice...Force of Nature cuts between past and present,
corporate and domestic, and cements its author as one of
Australia's boldest thriller writers
*Australian Women's Weekly*
The narrative is finely constructed, with perfectly measured pace
and suspense. So much so that it reminded me of another master of
form, Liane Moriarty...Harper has also harnessed what captivates
the Australian psyche - the landscape. The Dry is set in a small
country town in drought, and this time she takes us into the bush.
There are echoes of Picnic at Hanging Rock and Lord of the Flies as
any appearance of civility slips away and the women lose direction
in a hostile landscape. So does Harper's new book live up to the
first? I was thrilled to find that it does. The novel delivers and
Harper writes like a dream
*The Saturday Paper, Australia*
Harper's mastery of pace makes Force Of Nature one of 2017's best
thrillers
*Elle Australia*
[The Dry] was a superbly riveting demonstration of intelligent
crime writing, and its successor, Force of Nature, provides further
proof: Jane Harper knows all there is to know about detonating the
gut-level shocks of a great thriller....There's a distinct Liane
Moriarty vibe to Force of Nature...but with a sharper edge. Jane
Harper's brilliance in characterisation and evocative prose is on
full display here...In a crowded market, Jane Harper shines at the
quality end....Force of Nature is masterfully paced, wonderfully
rendered, and devastatingly entertaining
*Simon Macdonald, Potts Point Bookshop, Sydney*
With consummate skill, Harper alternates between Falk's
investigation and an account of what happened to the five women on
their hike, as they rapidly find that the natural world is out to
get them and their relations with each other deteriorate . . .
Harper has a fine gift for making her readers comfortable in
inhospitable territory - psychological as well as physical
*Daily Telegraph*
Harper has proved once again that she is a master of the thriller
genre. Highly, highly recommended
*Watford Observer*
Jane Harper brings a potent outsider's eye once again to the
uncanniness of the Australian bush . . . Like The Dry, this is a
deftly assembled and cleverly paced novel, the characters
skillfully and nimbly drawn . . . It's stirring to see a writer
racing out of the traps with such confidence and storytelling
flair.
*Independent*
Harper's tough but mild-mannered detective Aaron Falk returns for a
second outing . . . Flitting between descriptions of Falk's
investigation and an account of Alice and her colleagues'
adventures before her disappearance, Harper has produced another
humdinger of a thriller
*Sunday Express*
[A] well constructed mystery that's suitably atmospheric with fine
descriptions of the Australian bush
*Choice magazine*
Another superb thriller by the author of The Dry
*The Lady*
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