by Jane Harper
So guess what? I met Jane Harper (the author) last night. She came to a local book shop in Belfast and gave a really interesting talk. She was asked about her first book, The Dry, her two other books and her writing process. When she was talking about her third book, The Lost Man, the only book of h...
Die ersten Dreiviertel von "Ins Dunkel" lesen sich flüssig und unterhaltsam, allerdings fehlt für einen echten Thriller der richtige Thrill - der (psychologische) Nervenkitzel, der die Handlung erbarmungslos vorantreibt. Der Autorin gelingt es aber, eine kontinuierliche Grundspannung aufzubauen, die...
I really loved Jane’s first novel, The Dry so I was hoping this second novel was going to be just as fantastic as the first. The funny thing was, I kept having to remind myself as I read, that these were grown women that I was reading about and not teenagers. I just couldn’t believe grown women woul...
Five women set out on a trek through the Bush, part of a corporate retreat. Only four of them return. AFP officer Aaron Falk has to find out what happened to Alice, and whether it’s linked to his latest case, a case where Alice was the whistleblower and chief witness. Force of Nature is a welcome ...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Little, Brown Book Group for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. I had not read Harper’s first acclaimed novel The Dry when I read her second novel (although I had acquired it after reading many good reviews of it) and although it seems tha...
What makes the writing of Jane Harper so appealing to me is the very balanced and articulate style that flows with so little effort (or so it seems) from her writing. In "Force of Nature" she expertly relates a story in both the present and past timeline drawing them together in a nail biting conclu...