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“We’re all eccentrics in a town like this”

Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other by Caroline Graham; Kylie Stevenson

February 13, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other You have to hand it to Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson, that is one hell of a book title and one that would be perfectly suited to a piece of absurdist Australian fiction. But while absolutely absurd, the story told in Larrimah isn’t fictional at all, but rather true crime. This book is a follow up to the podcast ‘Lost in Larrimah’, which won […]

Corporate Team Building Plus Hiking? The Wooorst!

A Force of Nature by Jane Harper

November 25, 2019 by Jen K 2 Comments

Let’s be honest – corporate team building combined with hiking and camping? It’s enough to drive anyone to murder. Add the personality mixes of the group of women on the retreat and the domineering attitude of the missing woman, Alice, and it’s a recipe for disaster. Falk from Harper’s previous novel is back because Alice has been involved in a financial case he has been working, and it’s hard to tell if her disappearance is related to his case, due to other conflicts in her […]

Five coworkers reluctantly go into the woods, four come back…

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

June 21, 2019 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

Yay, I finally stumbled on a good one! (I recently got my third library card – hooray for working and living in different counties – and picked three books I’d never heard of.) This book was a breath of fresh air. A small family-owned company is forcing their employees to go on a corporate retreat hiking in the Australian outback. Nobody really wants to go, but they have to anyway because Tradition. Because Sexism, the campers are split into groups: Sister COO Jill leads the […]

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