The Lost Man by Jane Harper

May 1, 2019 by Christina

Fiction – Kindle edition. Flatiron Books, 2019. Originally published 2018. 352 pgs. Purchased. In the desolate outback of Queensland, Australia, Nathan meets his youngest brother, Bub, at a solitary, weather-battered grave dating back to the nineteenth century. A spooky air has always surrounded the grave; the locals imagining a number of horrible fates for the man buried there. Nathan, though, has always figured the man died from exposure to this unforgiving landscape – a landscape where heat and a scarcity […]

Categories: 2019 Reads, Crime, Fiction, Oceania • Tags: Jane Harper

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

May 2, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — Kindle edition. Flatiron Books, 2018. 329 pgs. Purchased.  Harper’s debut novel, The Dry, was near the very top of my list of favorite reads from 2017, and I have a feeling this novel — her second starring Australian Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk — will snag a spot on my list for 2018. The drought that plagued the events of Harper’s first novel has lifted, and readers return to find that Falk is pursuing a money laundering case against two […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Crime, Fiction, Oceania • Tags: Jane Harper

Ten Favorite Reads From 2017

January 5, 2018 by Christina

I took an unplanned (yet needed) extended break from book blogging in 2017, but I thought I’d dust away the cobwebs and share ten of my favorite reads from the past year. I read 69 books in 2017 — a smaller number than is typical for me, but to be expected given how the year went for me. My list of ten includes three nonfiction titles and all but one was published after 2009. Half were actually selected by my […]

Categories: 2017 Reads, Africa, Asia, Bookish Notes, Europe, North America, Oceania, Russia, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam • Tags: Amor Towles, Barbara Demick, Bill Browder, Fredrik Backman, Gail Honeyman, Jane Harper, Laurent Binet, Tim O'Brien, Trevor Noah, Yaa Gyasi