by Jane Harper
ISBN: 978-1-74354-909-4
First published 2017
380 pages
Cover design: MDCN Creative
3/5 Stars
A very good, easy holiday read. Jane Harper’s second published novel.
Do you like outward bound retreats?
Imagine going with the boss?
Imagine going with the boss whilst simultaneously preparing to turn Crown witness and testify against them.
Imagine going on a retreat, and not everyone returning.
Featuring great descriptions of the bush and what bush-trekking is like. The tension builds from the start, and the end of each chapter is a cliff-hanger.
Falk and Carmen, the two Detectives from the Australian Federal Police are involved in the white collar case, and can’t avoid becoming embroiled in this missing person case.
But why not 5 stars?
Because the author loses her nerve.
The promised denouement, the threatened war-torn conclusion is never delivered. Instead the climax peters out in misaligned good intentions and overblown petty frustrations.
Was there even a murderer?
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