And in summer the heat is relentless, unforgiving and potentially deadly.Ĭameron is the middle of three brothers – Nathan, the older, lives on his own on a small slice of land, outcast for reasons that slowly become clear, and Bub, the now grown up baby of the family. It is a large, empty landscape in which it is easy to go missing, cars are sporadic and people stay in touch by radio. The place is outback Queensland, 1500 km west of Brisbane where pastoral properties are the size of, well, pick any smallish country in Europe. It appears that he walked nine kilometres from his vehicle, became disoriented and never made it back. Cameron Bright has been found, dead from dehydration, at the lonely single grave of a long forgotten stockman. The book opens with the discovery of a body. In some ways it covers similar territory to The Dry – a rural community, an apparent or possible suicide and plenty of secrets – but shows a development in confidence and style. Her second book, Force of Nature returned with the character of Aaron Falk as investigator and while there are few easter egg connections to The Dry, her third book The Lost Man is a standalone mystery. Jane Harper burst onto the crime scene with The Dry, a book set in a small Victorian rural community beset by drought.
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