Force of Nature

Force of Nature by Jane Harper
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Five went out, four came back. In her follow-up to The Dry (which I haven’t read, but I really should), Harper’s detective, Aaron Falk, is called into a case when one of his informants goes missing on a corporate team-building retreat in the fictional Giralang Ranges outside of Melbourne. The prestigious accounting firm BaileyTennants is suspected of money laundering, so what has become of Alice, Falk’s whistle-blower?
This well-written, well-paced thriller flashes back and forth between the investigation at hand and what happened on each of the four days of hike from the perspectives of the five women. A lot can go wrong in the bush—and it does—as Harper builds the suspense. I was particularly impressed with her ability to write fight scenes. The action gets quite physical at times, and this was conveyed brilliantly by the writing.
I would be happy to revisit this series again.

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