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Morr_Books
The Lost Man | Jane Harper
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I do enjoy Jane Harper's Australian outback thrillers. They never end the way I think they will. #AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

CatLass007 This one definitely had a surprise ending! I thought it was an excellent book. 8h
bookandbedandtea I love all her books but this one is my favorite. 8h
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Texreader
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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 ⬇️

Texreader complaint, the rapid jumping back and forth between the retreat itself and the search for Alice gets a bit tedious. But it works! I will definitely read the next in the series and anything else this author writes. #Australia #readingOceania #authoramonth 1d
Librarybelle Awesome!!! 1d
BarbaraBB I enjoyed this too. So atmospheric! 21h
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TEArificbooks
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Read for #authoramonth. I liked enough to read the third in the series. @Soubhiville

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gossamerchild
The Dry | Jane Harper
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Finished my #aam today. What an incredibly compelling mystery. The descriptions of Australia in the midst of an intense drought was.... Damn, so horrifying. The mystery was depressing AF and the characters were complicated. I highly enjoyed this and might actually continue the series 🤣🤣

@Soubhiville #janeharper #thedry #authoramonth

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Deblovestoread
The Survivors | Jane Harper
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#AuthorAMonth #52Bookclub24 #FeaturesanOcean

I listened to this in a day while stitching. It‘s an easy read, not a lot of tension with mostly likable characters. The story slowly unfolds what really happened during an unusually violent storm and the drowning of two loved men from a small community. 3.5 🌟

Librarybelle Good choice for the prompt! 2d
BarbaraBB I haven‘t read this one yet but enjoyed her other books! 2d
Hooked_on_books I love her books—great choice! 2d
Crazeedi I've liked all her books 2d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2d
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TEArificbooks
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Re-read for #authoramonth. Still love it. Read with my homeschooled high schooler so it took a while since we have to stop to analyze.

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Karisa
Foster | Claire Keegan
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*I have to read every night before sleep in bed
*Smart, helpful, magical Hermoine Granger. Maybe she‘d take pity on me and magically organize my house and garage 😂
*House on the Cerulean Sea and American Gods
*Foster (tagged), Kindred, Handmaid‘s Tale…
*I need reading glasses but am always losing them🤓

#LItsyFoundFamilySwap @KateReadsYA

KateReadsYA I added Kindred to my TBR!! 🤗 3d
CatLass007 I have Kindred and Parable of the Sower in my Audible library. I need to bump them up further on my list. 3d
Karisa @CatLass007 oooh, Parable of the Sower is amazing! 3d
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CatLass007 I‘ve gotten out of the habit of reading science fiction, which is especially terrible because science fiction is my first love. Maybe I‘ve just branched out to other genres. But I‘m working on having balance in the types of books I read and Octavia Butler is one of the authors I want to include. 3d
Karisa @CatLass007 Me too! I used to only read sci-fi and fantasy but lately I‘ve been more into historical fiction and even nonfiction. It‘s like my reading taste buds have changed, but in my heart, I‘m still a sci-fi person 😂 3d
CatLass007 Absolutely! I‘ve been listening to a lot of urban fantasy and crime books. I thought I‘d expand my interests by participating in #AuthorAMonth, #SundayBuddyRead, and #LiteraryCrew. I loved The Spectacular because I used to live in New York and all of her books take place in NYC Landmarks. I also loved The Bandit Queens and hope to see more books by the author. So many books, so little time!!! 3d
Karisa @CatLass007 Agreed! I‘ll have to check those out! Thanks for the recs! 3d
CatLass007 You‘re welcome. If you read anything interesting, please let me know. 3d
CatLass007 Look on Amazon and order some lanyards for your reading glasses. There are some really nice ones. You‘ll probably end up looking a bit like a little old lady when you move your glasses to your nose, but it will keep your readers handy. 2d
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AllDebooks
The Survivors | Jane Harper
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Started this last night for my #AuthorAMonth selection, and I can't put it down. Very atmospheric, with great descriptions of the Tasmanian coastline.

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Soubhiville Love this cover! 3d
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dabbe
The Dry | Jane Harper
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After being driven away from Kiewerra, Australia 20 years earlier under suspicious circumstances, Det. Aaron Falk arrives back in his hometown during the worst drought in the century to attend the funeral of his boyhood friend Luke, his wife, and his son. Many in this scorching town believe Luke murdered his wife and son and then himself; it's up to Falk and local Sgt. Raco to find out what truly happened while Falk faces his past.
#AuthorAMonth

MrsMalaprop I remember reading this, Jane Harper‘s first book, when it came out. Captured rural Australia very well. The movie adaptation was excellent. 5d
dabbe @MrsMalaprop I'm way behind the 8-ball on this series--and many others, for that matter. 😂 I thoroughly enjoyed it, though, and will have to read the others. I can also definitely related to the heat and drought, living in Phoenix, AZ. 🤩 5d
Gissy I loved that series. I‘m currently reading my last book by this author😩She needs to write something else. I really enjoy her writing style. 5d
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MrsMalaprop Just looked up your climate. Similar to ours here in Perth, Western Australia, the most isolated capital city in the world. 5d
dabbe @Gissy Oh, I hate when that happens! I'll have to savor these slowly then! 🫨 5d
dabbe @MrsMalaprop Yeah, we experienced the most consecutive days above 110 degrees (43.3C) last summer (31 days in a row ... I was just a WEE bit grumpy!) We also beat the world record for consecutive number of 115+ degrees in a row (46.11 C over 6 days). Our temps do look similar, don't they? Your city is gorgeous! 🤩🤩🤩 5d
MrsMalaprop Oh wow 🥵. Your summer temps beat ours. We had a week of over 40C days last month & that‘s as hot as it gets. Gets much hotter further north in Western Australia though. 5d
dabbe @MrsMalaprop I would love to visit someday! Even though you have lots of poisonous things there! 🤩😍😃 4d
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Texreader
The Lost Man | Jane Harper
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Cameron, middle son of the Bright family in the far far outback, is found dead miles from his well-stocked truck. It looks like an unpleasant suicide but why end it this way? His older brother Nathan, the town outcast for many years, has his own demons but manages to slowly put unusual pieces of information together to find out what happens—and it truly is a surprise! I did feel like things ended a little too well, everyone‘s problems solved. ⬇️

CatLass007 What happens really is a surprise. 6d
Texreader I tried reading The Dry at the same time as this one and that was a no-go. Too many similarities. Outcasts trying to figure out apparent suicides. It turns out the books have a tenuous connection that really threw me for a loop—causing such confusion! So I put this one down and finished The Dry first. This was a much slower read than The Dry and until a child in the story spoke up revealing a deeper mystery, I struggled to keep my attention. ⬇️ 6d
Texreader But the ending is such a surprise it absolutely saved the entire book. #authoramonth #readingOceania #Australia 6d
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Librarybelle Hope to get to this one soon! 6d
Susanita It was fascinating to learn about how people live in the Outback, such as the grocery delivery and the generator. 6d
Texreader @Susanita And that the outback is a character as well, how it can kill so quickly!! 6d
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