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And there goes my TBR stacks! 😫

I need to read them all!

I started Force of Nature a while back but bailed. This time I tried audio and immediately got drawn into what reminded me of Lord of the Flies but instead of boys, it‘s adult female characters (a group of coworkers getting lost during a weekend team building hike). The less you know about the novel, the better. Highly recommend audio: Stephen Shanahan does a great job narrating the story.

Trying to read through the enormous pile of books I own but haven‘t read yet 😂 This was my second Jane Harper, I haven‘t watched the tv shows. She‘s such a good writer. Love detective Aaron and did not know how this was going to play out, definitely kept me guessing the entire time! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tonight's movie viewing takes me to, wouldn't you know it, Australia

This is book 2 in the Aaron Falk series, and even though it took me a little longer to get into than the first book, I really liked it 🙂

Have you ever been forced to go on a team-building work retreat?? Imagine going, getting lost, and losing a co-worker.

Falk and his partner are tasked with finding out what happened to unlikable Alice.

I do plan on reading book 3

My text to my co-worker this morning

#AuthorAMonth #JaneHarper @Soubhiville

This is the second book in the series. An excellent read about a woman who goes missing during a work adventure break in Australia. This book dues a good job of building tension as the book goes along, rather like peeling layers off an onion. Some good twists along the way.

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#SpringBreakReadathon @ShananigansReads

I finally got around to an #AuthorAMonth selection. I started the third in the Falk series and bailed because I realized I needed to read the second. It was a struggle. Not so much because Harper is a bad writer, but I just don‘t think it is a good mystery novel time for me. Low pick.

Falk and Carmen are investigating shady goings on at a financial firm when their key witness goes missing on a corporate retreat. 🕵🏼‍♂️

Second in the Aaron Falk series, this time he‘s pulled into heavily forested land to find a missing woman, who he‘d “recruited” to help him uncover financial wrongdoings at the company where she works. The company planned the team-building retreat, but Alice doesn‘t make it back. Meanwhile, her young teenage daughter is undergoing her own trauma. The convoluted story finally all comes together to reveal a surprising ending. If I had any ⬇️

Read for #authoramonth. I liked enough to read the third in the series. @Soubhiville

I finished The Dry a few days ago and just finished The Lost Man. So I‘ve picked this one as my next audiobook. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

I‘m planning to read at least book 1 for #AuthorAMonth.

With alternating timelines that gradually move closer to one another until they meet, this one is structured quite similarly to The Dry. I found it confusing in a few spots, but that seemed intentional and felt satisfying when things became more clear. I'm going to take a break before reading the next in the series, but I do plan to revisit these characters.

Trying to escape the relentless rain and flooding here from Storm Babet, I thought I‘d visit Australia and see how Aaron Falk was getting on. Only to discover he was stuck in the bush in a freezing rain storm. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Second book of three in this series and it doesn‘t disappoint. Harper writes so beautifully and effortlessly it puts me at ease at once and I‘m immersed in her stories. Onto book three next The Exiles.

Series: Aaron Falk #2

Enjoying the settings of this series, the wildness matches the stories really well. The mystery is complex and interesting, and the characters are well drawn. Will definitely continue the series.

Later, the four remaining women could fully agree on two things.

@ShyBookOwl

#FirstLineFridays

Contrary to popular opinion, I think maybe I liked this one better than the first in the series. The plot, at least. I would‘ve enjoyed some further character development of Falk, but maybe that‘s coming in book #3. The ending was a little anti-climactic, but it did keep me guessing.

Rereading the series has made me appreciate Aaron‘s grow as a person. The 1st time around, I was caught up in the story of the missing hiker, & trying to figure out who might have been involved in the disappearance. This time I focused on his new understanding of his relationship w/his deceased father. I loved his realization that sometimes people show love in ways we don‘t understand. I think the plot set him up perfectly for his end in Exiles.

Sometimes I wish I could take a few coworkers into the woods and make them disappear 😉 Harpers sequel to The Dry was a pretty good read. A team building hiking retreat goes awry when Alice Russell, who is assisting detectives in the investigation of her company, goes mysteriously missing. Is is murder? Is she hiding? Guess you‘ll have to read it to find out!

Except for it‘s hard to stay up late and read when you‘re feeling old and tired. 😂📚❤️

This the 2nd novel in the Aaron Falk series. I decided to listen again as the narrator, Stephen Shanahan is phenomenal. Alternating viewpoints as Harper has us follow Falk as a financial crimes investigation turns into a missing person one and the ill-fated camping adventure from which his informant disappears. A little less suspense and a bit of a flat resolution. The mean girls motif didn‘t work for me. 3+⭐️s-with storyline pluses and minuses.

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I liked this one, though not quite as much as the 1st in the series. Something about the characters in this story didn‘t grab me as much as those in hometown Kiewarra in The Dry. But I‘m definitely enjoying my new obsession with Jane Harper! Can‘t wait for Exiles at the end of the month. #52bookclub23 #relatedtothewordmurder

Book 22

I listened to Force of Nature, a detective mystery novel. As in Harper's other books, the Australian outdoors are a well-written, quintessential part of the plot. It was a surprise conclusion that wasn't revealed until the very end. Good, but not her best. 3.5 stars

Aaron Falk and his partner Carmen are investigating potential money laundering at BaileyTennants.

A group of 5 men and a group of 5 women from BaileyTennants, including Falk‘s contact at the company are out in the Giralang ranges on a team building exercise. But on the day the groups are due at the meeting point, the girls are late, and when they appear, only 4 are there. Where is Alice?

#Roll100

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I read Harper's first book several years ago and enjoyed it. I thought it was finally time to try another.

This was a well-paced mystery that I liked more than this author's debut novel. Nothing too profound, just a great story with interesting characters.

This novel features Aaron Falk of The Dry, as he and his partner Carmen investigate the disappearance of a confidential informant during a corporate retreat in the Australian bushlands. Shifting perspectives and flashbacks made this a tense, twisty ride and kept me guessing right until the end.

Sequel to The Dry-Falk is investigating a case in an important business firm. One of the collaborators in the investigation is participating in a team building camp coordinated by the firm under investigation. She got missing in the camp. That day, Falk received a cell voicemail with bad reception and he could only understood the phrase “hurt her”. Is her disappearance connected with the investigation? I didn‘t see the twists coming. 3.9/4⭐️

New!

2nd in the Aaron Falk series finds the detective returned to his role in financial investigations in Melbourne after the heat and bush fires of his childhood home. In this story a team building trip into the wet and cold wilderness finds a group of 5 women returning with one of them lost. Using alternating chapters of the investigation and the events that occurred this was a real page turner which I enjoyed a lot.

This would have been read in March if I'd started it earlier. I ended up skipping most of the chapters focusing on the women on the course, I just read the investigation chapters.

4 🌟

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Set in Australia: Force of Nature
SF Written by a Woman: The Fifth Season
Baked Goods on the Cover: On Thin Icing
Covid Hereos: A Death Struck Year
Mustache on the Cover: Freddie Mercury ALife, In His Own Words
Authors First Name Begins with A, B, or C: The Bookwanderers by Anna James

Form is completed. Really enjoyed this challenge and am all set for Spring!

I thought this second effort by Harper was even better than her debut. It‘s a mystery about a hike that goes wrong. 😨

#LitsySpringBreak Hike

#BookspinBingo. Ready for March Bookspin. The 2nd day of the month is always one of my favorite days!

Brilliant read! Follows on from The Dry! Really enjoy this author's work! I'm reading The Lost Man next! I'm trying to read slowly so I don't run out of her books to read!

I like The Dry better but I thought this was a worthy follow up. Good mystery that had me guessing till the end. Jane Harper‘s very good at setting up the atmosphere. With The Dry, you can almost feel the heat in the air. Here it‘s the damp and cold. Nicely done.

#Booked2021 #SetInAustralia
#SeriesRead2021
#MountTBR2021

This is the second book in The Dry series. I really enjoyed federal agent Aaron Falk and hope that the series continues 💖 I loved both books so much and was really able to jump into them! I'm a sucker for a good mystery and was pleasantly surprised by both endings! I'm definitely going to look into other books written by Jane Harper. 😁

Amazing series, thanks @LapReader for helping me find it through #newyearwhodis 📚😁 @monalyisha

#ThankfulThursday

1. I‘m not very crafty but did ceramics and made this ring dish in 1970.

2. I‘m thankful today for my family and friends.

Although generally speaking, this is not my go-to genre, it was a very compelling read and I found myself making time to sit down with it when I normally would have done other things. Well worth the time spent! I particularly liked the jumps between recent past and present, and that multiple viewpoints were explored. Zero spoilers or details - just read it 🙂

Sneaking in 5 minutes of reading on my lunch break. There are at least some benefits of working virtually during a lockdown 🤷‍♀️

Diving into this one tonight. Never read Jane Harper before but heard on Book Riot that this is a good one, so hoping Jeff was right!

My reading life settled into a groove in May, and I especially enjoyed this book from Jane Harper about a work retreat gone horribly wrong. Her next one comes out here in February, and I‘ve already put it on hold from Libby.

May was also when I started rereading Lord of the Rings with some friends on Facebook.

Honorable Mention to Pale Rider, a thorough discussion of the Spanish Flu, which I found oddly comforting.

#12booksof2020 #day5

This is the second of Jane Harper‘s books that I have read. Actually, listened to. The narration is good and the story keeps up at a good clip. I really enjoyed the characters as well, it‘s a mystery story involving a work retreat gone wrong. The Aussie accent of the narrator doesn‘t hurt either!

Someone is telling me I should stop reading and pay attention to her instead... 😹 Happy #caturday!! This is turning out to be an excellent read so far. 👌

@Cinfhen - you asked for it! 😂

#booked2021 #winter
#setinaustralia #forceofnature
#sciencefictionbyawoman #aclosedandcommonorbit
#bakedgoodsoncover #maplefrostedmurder
#covidheroesdoctor #thisisgoingtohurt
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#authorsfirstnamebeginswithabc #thelastofthemoongirls

I made the last one harder for myself - I wanted the exact first name!

@4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

🎧 Takes a few chapters to get used to the past/present shifts but the narrator has such a nice accent you might not notice. The past story meets the current investigation to solve the mystery. There‘s more story & character development than police procedural but it‘s so engaging you won‘t mind.

The story starts with a work retreat. The women get lost on a hike. Their fight for survival: gripping & the ending was a bit of a surprise! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/8

Another from my TBR. I really should read what I already have before buying more books #NotGonnaHappen

#Force
#FallFinds
@Eggs

#FallFinds @Eggs
#Force

All of Jane Harper‘s books give readers such a sense of place, and you can just feel the elements of the places she sets them in Australia. BTW, Force of Nature does not make me want to go on a wilderness retreat with my coworkers!

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Day 7 - #Force FallFinds
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I read and enjoyed this book in 2018.