Cannonball Read 18

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Corporate Team Building Plus Hiking? The Wooorst!

A Force of Nature by Jane Harper

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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 […]

What if you weren’t sure if your old friend murdered his entire family?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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My sister gave me this book to read after she read the entire thing on our Christmas vacation at the end of last year in like two days.  She loved it, and she wanted me to love it too.  Unfortunately my to be read pile was waaaay too high, and it takes me a while to read “actual” books, so it took me a while to get to this book.  Fortunately though, I read it in two days!  It was really good.  I liked the […]

CBR11Bingo: Far and Away

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

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I have read a couple of Jane Harper’s novels (The Dry and Force of Nature, both of which I’d recommend) and what I love about them is the setting: her books take place in Australia (Far and Away!) but not in the cities — they’re set in tiny little towns in the Outback, a place so massive and wild and dangerous that it’s basically its own character. “Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, […]

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

Force of Nature by Jane Harper

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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 […]

Gonna ride til I can’t no more

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

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I didn’t think it was a good idea to start in on another mystery after falling so hard for The Dime, fearing that anything would suffer in comparison, but my library loan was expiring soon so I jumped into The Lost Man and hoped for the best. Turns out it was the best one two punch combo ever. They both have a western kind of feel and are slow burns. The Lost Man takes place in the same universe as Jane Harper’s wonderful Aaron Falk […]

No title can do this book justice.

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  I love love love this book! The Dry, by Jane Harper was absolutely fantastic and beautifully written. This book is just as good. Whilst it doesn’t contain the same beautiful descriptions of places and people, it excels in being a great mystery. This book is about a team building exercise where a group of guys and ladies head out to bond. All of the men return on time, the women are late back and one of them does not return. The mystery is around […]



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