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'I absolutely loved The Lost Man. I devoured it in a day. Her best yet!' Liane Moriarty

From the international bestselling author of The Dry and new novel The Survivors.

The man lay still in the centre of a dusty grave under a monstrous sky.

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland.

They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last chance for their middle brother, Cameron.

The Bright family's quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. Something had been troubling Cameron. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn't, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects

For readers who loved The Dryand Force of Nature, Jane Harper has once again created a powerful story of suspense, set against a dazzling landscape.

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY BEST FICTION AWARD 2019
WINNER OF THE DAVITT READER'S CHOICE AWARD 2019
WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARDS BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE ABIA GENERAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020

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'I read this with the growing realisation that it was not only another superb thriller but a classic work of fiction by one of the finest novelists now working. Man Booker judges for 2019, are you listening?' New Zealand Herald Weekend Magazine

'I started it at noon and at 2am that night I closed it and totally understood what all the fuss was about. It was even better than The Dry'The Age

'In The Lost Man, Jane Harper surpasses her achievement in The Dry, her multi-award winning first novel. A broad range of Australian and international readers will be engaged by the strong setting and mystery storyline of the new novel' Weekend Australian

'Like the country it describes, this is a inch big inch book, and one likely to cement Harper's place as one of the most interesting Australian crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Her sense of place is acute, but it is her attention to the relationships that are shaped by this unforgiving, magnificent landscape that will linger long after the mystery of stockman's grave is finally revealed.' Sue Turnbull, Sydney Morning Herald

'In just a couple of years, Jane Harper has soared into the first rank of contemporary crime writers. The Lost Man returns to the parched landscape she used to such powerful effect in her debut, The Dry Three generations of women - the dead man's mother, wife and daughters - struggle to come to terms with terrible events, and the family's shocking history holds the key to this super murder mystery' Sunday Times (UK)

'In The Lost Man as in Harper's previous two novels, place is paramount, a multifaceted character that's in turns brutal and breathtaking.' Washington Post

'[A] crime masterpiece. The landscape and culture of this remote Australian territory are magnificently evoked as a story of family secrets unfolds. Rarely does a puzzle so complicated fit together perfectly - you'll be shaking your head in amazement.' People Magazine Book of the Week

'Fabulously atmospheric, the book starts slowly and gradually picks up pace towards a jaw-dropping denouement' Guardian.

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28 May 2019
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Three brothers, one death, no answers... For readers who loved The Dry and Force of Nature, Jane Harper once again creates a powerful story of suspense, set against a dazzling landscape.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pan Australia (28 May 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1760781061
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1760781064
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.5 x 20 cm

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Jane Harper is the author of The Dry, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2017. Rights have been sold in 27 territories worldwide, and film rights optioned to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne.

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An absorbing read but with inconsistencies

Reviewed in Australia on 5 July 2019

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The story setting is a seven hundred square kilometres cattle station in the Queensland outback, in the heat of late December. Following the death of their father, the station is run by Cameron although his two brothers each have a minority interest. Cameron dies under mysterious circumstances and a whole lot of family issues come to the surface. There are many flashbacks to things that happened in the past that parallel happenings now. The characters are well developed and the story is nicely paced, with many twists and turns.

The dominating feature is the heat and as is emphasised, you don’t spend time out in the open. If your vehicle breaks down you stay with the vehicle until you are found. Yet Cameron died of thirst nine kilometres from his undamaged vehicle.

There are some inconsistencies. A character walks into the cool room amongst frozen food; cool rooms are just that and are not freezers. The generator at the homestead is switched off each night leaving the house in total darkness. A real homestead would have battery operated night lights or would have 24 hour power to keep cool rooms and refrigerators running. One of the characters rides a horse over a distance of about forty kilometres in the heat of the day with no problems.

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New Australian Classic...

Reviewed in Australia on 25 October 2018

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‘The Lost Man’ is every bit the page turner you expect from Jane Harper, such a gifted Aussie writer. I have devoured all of her books as you can feel the heat and taste the red dust just like the characters - characters that will seep into your skin like the landscape... you will love and hate it and them in equal parts.

‘The Lost Man’ will have you thinking a lot about the ugly side of human nature as it builds an atmosphere of tension underneath an intriguing murder mystery that keeps you glued to the story from page one. This however is not a whodunnit or a detective lead mystery, at it’s core is a family unravelling - the Bright family, who are struggling to come to terms with the horrific death of brother/son/husband/father/uncle/nephew, Cameron.

It's told in first person POV mainly from the perspective of Nathan, who is the eldest son and lives on a neighbouring property completely alone.
“He couldn't simply leave, for a lot of reasons. Financial. Practical. And not least because sometimes, quite a lot of the time, he felt connected to the outback in a way that he loved. There was something about the brutal heat, when the sun was high in the sky and he was watching the slow meandering movement of the herds. Looking out over the wide-open plains and seeing the changing colors. It was the only time he felt something close to happiness."

The information is unveiled, first raising questions, then answering those with new questions, until you're swiping madly trying to figure out what exactly happened to Cameron, and who was behind it. I found it highly addictive and I would say it’s my new favourite book by this iconic author, as I already feel the need to read it again as I am sure I will reveal totally different dimensions I missed on first reading... It’s definitely a new Aussie Classic...

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Shaz198

Amazingly good

Reviewed in Australia on 5 February 2019

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This book really resonated with me. You could just feel that blazing heat of the outback in your skin...as it’s almost as bad down here in Victoria at the moment. This was a tense family standoff. Wonderful character development made the book some sort of fantastic page turner.
I didn’t see the ending coming and it tore my heart out. It was so emotional.
Wonderful wonderful book.
I can’t wait until the next Jane Harper gem.

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Reviewed in Australia on 20 January 2019

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A fascinating book and a story very well told.There's so much to appreciate in this book; people so vividly described you'd recognise them if you met, descriptions of farming and living in a small outback community where people struggle with the tyranny of distance and a tough environment every day, and the warmth with which people and their problems are characterised. And "who dunnit" a well kept secret until the very end!

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Christine

Really good

Reviewed in Australia on 20 June 2021

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I knew the Outback was big, but I never realised just how big it really is.
I haven’t read one of Jane Harpers books before, although I have seen the movie The Dry and absolutely loved it. I will defined be reading more of her works.
Jane really captures the harsh and vastness of the Australian Outback, to its locals and tourist alike, even the locals can be harsh.
Nathan, one of three brothers, made a mistake, an unforgivable mistake, and he has paid that penalty for the last decade, abandoned by the town, to only go in for fuel and the post office, he has lived a very lonely existence, his family are just next door on there own property, but it’s not just a jump over the fence, I’ll see ya later. It’s quiet a drive away. He does have people looking out for him though.
His son is home for the Christmas holiday, and his brother has just been found dead.
The unspoken rule of never leave your car is paramount in this harsh environment, just like always having your radio on. It leaves the question on Nathan’s lips, where is his brothers car, why would he leave it.
A very well written and thought out story. Loved it.

Reviewed in Australia on 17 December 2018

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Just when you think you've read it all, along comes Jane Harper with an Australian who dunnit that blitzes the field. The story is told with words that paint the picture of outback and station life, making you feel as if you are there watching the take unfold. I can't wait for more Harper stories!
The Lost Man tells of a strange death that appears as impossible for people who know the man. But what transpires makes us ask ourselves how well do we really know people even if we see then every day? So who killed Cameron? You'll have to read the book!

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Reviewed in Australia on 25 November 2018

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I read The Dry before this and I am amazed how different they are but how powerfully the author is able to describe the landscape and the people who live in the real outback. I love her people her way of making them real and the way that you grow to know them. A wonderful evocative story well worth your time.

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saucey sue

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2018

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3 novels & each got marginally better, if not brilliant by this last one. 2 days reading, couldn’t put it down & with so many twists & turns & distractions I never saw it coming until it smacked me in the face at the end. And so it should be. Read the other 2 stand alone books, but definitely take this one on be blown away by all that fills the pages....the Australian outback, the visuals, the folk who do it tough but never back down in the face of so many hardships that nature throws at these people, families with secrets from each other, differing personalities.....this book has it all. Enjoy.

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Bluecashmere.

A quite exceptional novel.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2019

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If I read a finer novel than this in 2019 I shall be delighted and very surprised.

Recently, I have enjoyed a number of splendid Australian novels, including Jane Harper's The Dry, her first novel, and a rare achievement in itself, Scrublands, by Chris Hammer and Paul Howarth's Only Killers and Thieves, all of which strike me as notably good books. For me, anyway, The Lost Man puts even these in the shade.

The story concerns three brothers, Nathan, Bub and Cameron (Cam), their extensive cattle ranches and their families. Each of the brothers is a strongly realised individual, none less than Nathan, through whose eyes we witness most of the events that make up the novel. He, like the others, has been seriously damaged in the past, and partly by circumstance and partly by choice he is an outsider even within the extended families, whose lives and interrelationships are progressively revealed. Jane Harper shows an exceptional skill in handling dialogue; it is natural, convincing and subtly revealing of character. It is never over-explicit. We, the readers, are left to draw inferences and thereby are drawn ever deeper into the lives of the characters and the events which shape their destinies.

As with Scrublands - and there are a number of interesting parallels - key events and circumstances lie behind the narrative. There is not one of the characters who is not under the shadow of what has happened in the past. In many ways the story is a journey into the past as well as advancing towards a climax that is both unexpected yet wholly satisfying. The lives of not only the brothers but their families and associates, exert an increasingly firm hold on us, so that we feel at some depth the consequences of their actions and the ever shifting relationships between them. That they all inhabit a world so convincingly created, and so often demanding and more, only serves to root them even firmer into our minds. In short, a wonderful novel and a major contribution to the recent wave of Australian fiction.

I have yet to read Force of Nature, a pleasure that awaits. There is enough in The Dry and especially this novel to more than whet the appetite.

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JaquiP

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2018

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First, so carefully, so cleverly, we are placed in a setting, the beautiful, prose and vivid descriptions totally setting the scene of the prologue, gripping from the start: A mystery, a terrible death and already, only a few pages in, I couldn't stop reading. "He had squeezed into that shade, contorting his body into desperate shapes, kicking and scuffing the ground as fear and thirst took hold......" ... Nobody writes Australian outback like Jane Harper...... You feel the harshness of the sun, the isolation of the outback. It's terrific - plot, characters, pace, dialogue. My first read of the year, way back in January was The Dry because the reviews were so good and I wanted to kick off the year with a great book. I equally wanted to finish my reading year with a great, entertaining and gripping read, not a so\so one, of which I have read a few, so again, selected this writer, and WOW. It's so good. Highly recommended. It sizzles.

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Sarah-Lou

Jane Harper is an incredible story teller.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2018

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In the outback of Queensland, Australia, two brothers, Nathan and Bub, stand at the Stockman's Grave at the border of both their vast cattle properties. Their middle brother, Cameron lies dead, killed by the unrelenting sun. It appear Cameron left his car, well stocked with supplies, in full working order and wandered off. Or did he?
Told through the eyes of Nathan, Jane Harper brilliantly portrays to toughness, resilience and adaptability required to live and work in such a harsh, yet beautiful environment. Nature's ability to kill if you are unprepared is present at all times. Nathan has doubts this was Cam's way of commiting suicide, but cannot quite put his finger on why. Slowly pieces fall into place as to what may have happened as Nathan is effectively stranded at his family home until the funeral with his visiting teenage son, Xander.
Family secrets and unspoken events are gradually exposed.
This is an utterly gripping story, where each scene has a purpose. Jane Harper is a master story teller and I look forward to her next offering.

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DC HARRISON

Brilliant read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2018

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The only problem with The Lost Man was it was so good I couldn't put it down and finished it too quickly! After eagerly waiting for Jane's new book, I behaved like the Cookie Monster in a cookie warehouse (before he was cleaned up by the PC loonies). I wolfed it down!

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